Amílcar Cabral

Born

1924-09-12

Died

1973-01-20

Birthplace

Bafatá, Guinea Bissau

Biography

Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, pan-africanist, intellectual, poet, theoretician, revolutionary, political organizer, nationalist, and diplomat. He was one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders.