Amílcar Cabral

Born

September 12, 1924

Died

January 20, 1973 · age 48

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.