The Value of Culture

[The Talking Drum Collective]

"The value of culture as an element of resistance to foreign domination lies in
the fact that culture is the vigorous manifestation, on the ideological or
idealist level, of the material and historical reality of the society that is
dominated or to be dominated. Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's
history and a determinant of history, by the positive or negative influence it
exerts on the evolution of relations between man and his environment and among
men or human groups within a society, as well as between different societies."

Amilcar Cabral
Unity and Struggle