Amílcar Cabral

Born 1924-09-12 · Bafatá, Guinea Bissau

Died 1973-01-20

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.