Daysi García López, angola - Day of Solidarity - 4 February, 1969

Offset lithographic poster advertising a day of solidarity with Angola, 4th February 1969, depicting a figure with a grenade on the forehead.

angola - Day of Solidarity - 4 February

Creator: Daysi García López
Commissioned by: OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America)
Date: 1969

Between the 1960s and 1990s, more than fifty designers worked at OSPAAAL. Based in Cuba, they made magazines and posters that were sent around the world. Their aim was to promote radical political ideas. Many of their posters celebrate socialist revolutions and liberation movements from the Global South.

This poster commemorates the beginning of the Angolan War of Independence on 4 February 1961.