Reasons and effects of the participation of Cuban Afro-descendants in the struggles for emancipation in Africa
Abstract
This paper aims to analyse the participation of Afro-Cubans in the armed struggle for the decolonization of Africa. Indeed, after the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, protected by the Internationalism and the Marxism, and under the command of Ernesto Che Guevara, Cuba breaks out a campaign of liberation in Africa in which, the afrodescendants, at the forefront of the armies, will play an important role. In this way, this article analyses the reasons of the select participation of blacks Cubans. It starts with the blood relation between Cuba and Africa, then studies the reasons of the sending of afrodescendant’s combatants and the great protagonists of these campaigns and finishes with the impact of these struggles in the relationship between both peoples.
Keywords: Cuba; Africa; afrodescentant; struggles; liberation
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