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Amílcar Cabral
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Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean politician (1924-1973)
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Amílcar Cabral (1924–1973) was a politician, agricultural engineer, and writer from Bafatá. He held citizenship in Portugal and was a member of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde and the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola. Cabral was educated at the Technical University of Lisbon and spoke Portuguese and English. His fields of work included politics, agriculture, and poetry. He is the author of works such as *African Popular Culture and Emancipatory Politics* and *Textos políticos de Amilcar Cabral*.
Cabral was killed in an extra-judicial manner in Tsévié, Conakry, on January 20, 1973. He was buried at the Fortaleza de São José da Amura. He received the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo.
Synthesized by Vinony from 35 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1921
- Died
- 1973
- Works
- 50
Top works
- African Popular Culture and Emancipatory Politics
- Promotion Amilcar Cabral
- La descolonización del Africa portuguesa
- Palavras de ordem gerais
- Textos políticos de Amilcar Cabral
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Guinea-Bissau
- Active from
- 1924
- Active to
- 1973
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Am%C3%ADlcar+Cabral">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
· 2014 · cited 9,234x
- The Structure of the Potassium Channel: Molecular Basis of K
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Conduction and Selectivity
· 1998 · cited 6,089x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
· 2015 · cited 4,995x
- Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,665x
- The Body-Mass Index, Airflow Obstruction, Dyspnea, and Exercise Capacity Index in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
· 2004 · cited 2,993x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Amílcar Lopes Cabral , ( 1924-09-12 ) 12 September 1924, Bafatá , Portuguese Guinea
- Died
- 20 January 1973 (1973-01-20) (aged 48), Conakry , Guinea
- Cause 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
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Amílcar Lopes Cabral ( Portuguese: [ɐˈmilkaɾ ˈlɔpɨʃ kɐˈbɾal]; (1924-09-12)12 September 1924 – (1973-01-20)20 January 1973) was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer, diplomat, and half-brother of Luís Cabral. 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amílcar Cabral” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.