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Emerging Nationalism in Portuguese Africa: a Bibliography of Documentary Epherema Through 1965 Emerging nationalism in Portuguese Africa: a bibliography of documentary epherema through 1965 http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.crp2b20020 Use of the Aluka digital library is subject to Aluka’s Terms and Conditions, available at http://www.aluka.org/page/about/termsConditions.jsp. By using Aluka, you agree that you have read and will abide by the Terms and Conditions. Among other things, the Terms and Conditions provide that the content in the Aluka digital library is only for personal, non-commercial use by authorized users of Aluka in connection with research, scholarship, and education. The content in the Aluka digital library is subject to copyright, with the exception of certain governmental works and very old materials that may be in the public domain under applicable law. 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Description This is an extensive bibliography of pamphlets, newsletters, reports, and other material collected by Ronald Chilcote on nationalism in Portugal's African colonies. A selection of documents from the same set of materials appears in another book by Chilcote in the Aluka Digital Library. The material was collected over the period 1959-1965, and includes primarily documents from these years. Format extent 134 pages (length/size) http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.crp2b20020 http://www.aluka.org Africana Africana L016. 967 C535e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY EVANSTON ILLINOIS HOOVER INSTITUTION BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SERIES; XXXIX EMERGING NATIONALISM IN PORTUGUESE AFRICA A Bibliography of Documentary Ephemera Through 1965 BY RONALD H. CHILCOTE .Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace Stanford University,- Stanford, California L_/-i, 9/ 73' The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, founded at Stanford University in 1919 by the late President Herbert Hoover, is a center for advanced study and research on public and international affairs in the twentieth century. The views expressed in its publications are entirely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Hoover Institution. @ 1969 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University All rights reserved Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 68-8810 Printed in the United States of America INTRODUCTION This bibliography is one product of a project to collect, translate, and edit a volume of documents issued by Portuguese African nationalist movements.* The project was formally initiated in 1963 with the encouragement of Dr. Peter Duignan, Curator of the African Collection at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, and with financial support granted by the Institution's Research and Publications Committee. Collection of ephemeral materials was actually begun by the editor as early as 1959, and continued during eight months' residence in Portugal during 1960-61, a visit to Brazil in the summer of 1964, and extensive travels throughout Africa in the summer of 1965. The bibliography includes the editor's comprehensive collection of ephemera but covers only the period through 1965.** For the most part these documents are written in French, Portuguese, and Spanish, although for some an English version is available. The material is separated into ephemera (generally mimeographed) and other sources (published pamphlets and articles in periodicals) and has been ordered into (1) a general section on Portuguese Africa; (2) individual sections for each territory; (3) a section on United Nations publications; and (4) a section drawn from the "International Development series" of the Joint Publications Research Service. Excluded are the hundreds of secondary references in periodicals and books which focus on nationalist activities but are written by non- Portuguese African authors. A number of persons and organizations have contributed significantly to this enterprise. For their assistance in building the documents collection, I wish to thank Abflio de Oliveira Aguas, Chairman of the Committee Pro-Democracy in Portugal; Lufs D'Almeida, representative of the Movimento Popular de Libertago de Angola (MPLA) in Algiers; Mirio de Andrade, Algiers; Perry Anderson, editor of New Left Review in London; Carlos Gonqalves of the Angola Office, New York; Eduardo Webber, editor of The Angolan Student; A.J. Bosgra of the Actiecomit6 Angola, Amsterdam; Aquino de Braganga, Algiers; the Centro de Estudos Angolanos, Algiers; Daniel-JMilio Chipenda, representative of the MPLA in Dar es Salaam; Jos6 Chipenda of Unido Nacional dos Estudantes Angolanos (UNEA) in New York; the Coordinating Secretariat of the International Student Conference (COSEC) of Leiden, Netherlands; *The accompanying volume of documents, Emerging Nationalism in Portuguese Africa: Documentary Ephemera through 1965, also will be published by the Hoover Institution. **Microfilm of the collection is deposited in the library of the Hoover Institution. For earlier published bibliographies of nationalist ephemera, see Ronald H. Chilcote, "African Ephemeral Materials: Portuguese African Nationalist Movements," Africana Newsletter, I (winter 1963), 9-17; and 'Nationalist Documents on Portuguese Guin6 and Mogambique," African Studies Bulletin (April 1967), 22-42. General bibliographic references may be found in Ronald H. Chilcote, Portuguese Africa (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1967), pp. 12941. Miguel Trovoada of the Comit6 de Libertago de Sdo Tom6 e Prfncipe (CLSTP) in Libreville; the Comit6 de Soutien A 'Angola, Paris; the Confederagdo das Organizag6es Nacionalistas das Col6nias Portugu8sas (CONCP) in Rabat; Johnny Eduardo of the Gouvernement R6volutionnaire de 'Angola en Exil (GRAE) office in Algiers; the Frente de Luta pela Independ~ncia Nacional da Guin6-Bissau (FLING) in Dakar; Gil Fernandes; various members of the Frente de Libertaqao de Moqambique (FRELIMO) in Dar es Salaam, including Dr. Eduardo Mondlane, Marcelino dos Santos, and the late Jaime Sikauke; Janet Mondlane and Betty King of the Instituto Moqambicano; the Frente Patri6tica de Libertaqfo Nacional (FPLN), including the late General Humberto Delgado, Piteiro Santos, and Manuel Sert6rio; Henrique Galvfo of Sao Paulo; David and Jim Grenfell in Moerueke Kwilu, Congo; Emmanuel Kounzika of the Partido Democrdtico de Angola (PDA) in Kinshasa; Jacques Lauret, Lausanne; Marcel Levaux, Paris; Jos6 Lima de Azevedo, former MPLA representative in Brazil; Joseph Massinga, FRELIMO representative in New York; Malcolm McVeigh; the Movimento de Defesa dos Interdsses de Angola (MDIA) in Kinshasa; the MPLA in Brazzaville; the Mogambique African National Union (MANU) in Khartoum; the leaders of the Partido Africano da Independ~ncia da Guin6 e Cabo Verde (PAIGC) in Conakry, especially Amfilcar Cabral, his brother Luiz Cabral, and Aristides Pereira; Abflio Duarte of the PAIGC office in Algiers; Paul Touba of UNEA; the COREMO in Lusaka and Cairo; Holden Roberto, Eduardo Pinnock, and the GRAE in Kinshasa; Jorge Valentim of Oegatgeest, Netherlands, S6rgio Vieira of the FRELIMO office in Algiers; and the World Assembly of Youth, Brussels. I am grateful to Mrs. Patricia Tsien, who assisted me in gathering United Nations documents. For permission to microfilm and photocopy their documents I am greatly indebted to Collin Gonze and George Hauser of the American Committee on Africa; Winifred Armstrong, New York; and John Cooley of Casablanca; as well as Professors James Duffy of Brandeis University, John Marcum of Lincoln University, Immanuel Wallerstein of Columbia University, Douglas Wheeler of the University of New Hampshire, and I. William Zartman of New York University. This extensive list is perhaps indicative of the great effort necessary to bring together a collection comprehensive in scope. Yet even after the generous efforts and cooperation of so many persons, there are still gaps in the collection. Assisting me in the task of organizing and cataloging the materials were Sally McBean Harms and Elsa Johnson. I am grateful for their help and especially wish to thank research assistant Natalie Lippman, whose months of persistent and precise work brought great improvement to the bibliography. I must also thank Russell Bartley for the translation of one document from Russian; Kathryn McCormick for extensive translation assistance in the initial phase of the project; Hildeliza Arias, who carefully typed the manuscript; and Eva Nyqvist, who edited the work for style and language consistency. Without the contribution of two other persons, Sarah K. Myers and my wife, Frances Bunker Chilcote, this project would have remained unfinished. Mrs.
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