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Amílcar Cabral

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Amílcar Cabral

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Also known as Amilcar Cabral, Amílcar Lopes Cabral, Amilcar Lopes Cabral, Abel Djassi

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.

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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

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
Guinea-Bissau
Active from
1924
Active to
1973

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
1

Tags

guinea-bissau

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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.

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