Amílcar Cabral
Amílcar Cabral | |
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Cabral wearing a traditional skullcap known as a sumbia during the 1964 Cassacá Congress, a gathering of PAIGC cadres. | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Amílcar Lopes Cabral 12 September 1924 |
| Died | 20 January 1973 (aged 48) |
| Manner of death | Assassination by gunshot |
| Resting place | Amílcar Cabral's Mausoleum |
| Party | African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde; People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola; All-African People's Revolutionary Party |
Amílcar Lopes Cabral (Portuguese: [ɐˈmilkaɾ ˈlɔpɨʃ kɐˈbɾal]; 12 September 1924 – 20 January 1973) was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer, diplomat, and half-brother of Luís Cabral who was the 1st President of Guinea-Bissau. He was widely remembered as one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders. He was also a pan-Africanist and intellectual nationalist revolutionary poet.
Also known by the nom de guerre Abel Djassi, he led the nationalist movement of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands and the ensuing war of independence in Guinea-Bissau.
Cabral was shot dead on 20 January 1973, about eight months before Guinea-Bissau's unilateral declaration of independence. He was deeply influenced by Marxism, becoming an inspiration to revolutionary socialists and national independence movements worldwide.