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How Amílcar Cabral shaped Paulo Freire’s pedagogy

20 September 2021 | Curry Malott Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire 1977
Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5326164

Paulo Freire's centennial anniversary is also celebrated by many educators, scholars and activists on the African continent. As part of his education, Paulo Freire spent time in Guinea-Bissau where he learned about Amílcar Cabral's revolutionary consciousness and theory of decolonisation. In this article, Curry Malott reflects on the ways in which Cabral has contributed to Freire's pedagogy.

Click here to read the article. First published in New Frame