Che Guevara, Heroic Leader Who Sowed Revolutionary Seed in Africa

"Well, undoubtedly, beyond these leaders I have already mentioned and the countries where Che was present in some way, the country where Che's presence was most visible was in the Congo. Che arrived in the Congo accompanied by a group of Cuban revolutionaries, former combatants in the struggle against Batista. And the intention was in some way to advise, in some way to articulate in a better way a revolutionary movement that was taking place in the Congo," Demirel Alfonso López, historian, Master in Educational Sciences with a specialty in history and philosophy from Cuba, says.

"The process of decolonization in Africa is a process that in some way had already begun in the mid-1950s, but undoubtedly the Cuban Revolution, the figures of Che and Fidel, are going to give an extraordinary impulse to these struggles for liberation, which is not only a national liberation struggle; it is a seal, let us say, a mark that the example of the Cuban Revolution is going to imprint on this process of decolonization in Africa," Frank Josué Solar Cabrales, professor at the University of Oriente in Santiago de Cuba, president of the Chair for the Study of the Thought and Work of Fidel Castro at the University of Oriente, stresses.