Amílcar Cabral

Birthday: September 12th, 1924 Date of Death: January 20th, 1973 Place of Birth: 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.