anti-colonial leaders
Bartolina Sisa: an Aymara fighter against the Spanish Empire

In honor of International Indigenous Women’s Day, Capire brings you the story of Bartolina Sisa, an Indigenous Bolivian fighter from the 18th century.

Assassination of Amílcar Cabral, one of Africa’s foremost anti-colonial leaders

He was a prolific Marxian theorist who not only led the war of independence that toppled Portuguese rule in Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde but influenced the fight for decolonization across the continent.