Amílcar Cabral

Born 12 September 1924 in Bafatá, Guinea Bissau

Died 20 January 1973 (aged 48)

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.