Paris exhibition pairs contemporary art with revolutionary history

The Maison des mondes africains in Paris opened a new exhibition titled Amílcar Cabral, pour un humanisme radical to honor the life of a revolutionary thinker.

The exhibition uses contemporary art to engage with film and sound archives of liberation struggles. It focuses on the legacy of Amílcar Cabral, a Lusophone revolutionary who worked for 20 years to secure independence for Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. Cabral died in 1973 before he could see the final results of his efforts.

The curators aim to explore Cabral's vision of culture as an act of liberation involving civic awareness, economic autonomy, and Pan-Africanism. These ideas are currently relevant as several West African countries look toward these concepts again in 2026.