Amílcar Cabral

Known for

Acting

Gender

Male

Born

September 12, 1924

Age at death

48

Died

January 20, 1973

From

Bafatá, Guinea Bissau

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.