“To Defend the Earth is To Defend the Human” Amilcar Cabral on Soil, Society and Freedom

This book is a translation of Amilcar Cabral’s key agrarian studies that have thus far remained underexplored. Amílcar Cabral was born on September 12, 1924, in Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau. By the late 1940s, he was working as an agronomist, already committed to protecting both land and human life.

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Format:

234×156 mm

Pages:

272pp

ISBN-13:

978-0-7983-0551-8

Publish Year:

March 2026

Rights:

World Rights

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List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Some Considerations About the Rains
Chapter 2: In Defence of the Land
Chapter 3: The Problem of Soil Erosion
Chapter 4: Understanding the Problem of Soil Erosion in Guinea
Chapter 5: On the Mechanisation of Agriculture in Portuguese Guinea
Chapter 6: About Land Use in Black Africa
List of translated works
About the author
About the translators and editors
Index

Amilcar Cabral – born in Guinea-Bissau in 1924 – was an agronomist and revolutionary who believed Africa’s liberation hinged on a care-based relationship between people and the soil.

About the translators and editors:
Anselmo Matusse https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0995-513X is Research Officer at Critical Zones Africa in Environmental Humanities South and (UCT) an affiliate of the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique.
Carlos Lopes https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6754-7017 is an Honorary Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance (UCT).
Lesley Green https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4140-7862 is Professor of Earth Politics, and Director of Critical Zones Africa in Environmental Humanities South (UCT).

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