Castro, the Blacks, and Africa
Edition: Third Printing
Publisher: Center for Afro-American Studies University of California, Los Angeles
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Los Angeles, California
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 490
Copyright date: 1988
First sentence: At the start of the massive and spectacular Cuban military intervention in Angola in 1975, President Fidel Castro proclaimed Cubans to be a "Latin-African people" whose duty was to assist in the liberation of black Africa, the ancestral continent of perhaps more than half of the island's population.