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Menes De Griot with Shanto featuring Ama Antoine Cultural expression is a form of resistance. Amilcar Cabral, Cape Verdean revolutionary assassinated in 1973, had this to say about culture while delivering the Eduardo Mondlane Memorial Lecture at Syracuse University in February 1970. "Culture is simultaneously the fruit of the people's history and a determinant of history...[I]gnorance of this fact may explain the failure of several attempts at foreign domination--as well as the failure of some international liberation movements."