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Amílcar Cabral | |
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| Born | 12 September 1924 Bafatá, Portuguese Guinea |
| Died | 20 January 1973 Conakry, Guinea |
| Cause of death | Murder by Portuguese colonialists |
| Political orientation | Marxism Pan-Africanism |
| Political party | PAIGC |
Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral (12 September 1924 – 20 January 1973) was a Bissau-Guinean national liberation leader and Marxist revolutionary. Following his murder by Portuguese fascists, the Second Congress of the PAIGC elected Aristides Pereira as secretary-general of the party.[1]
Early life
Cabral was born to a Cape Verdean family in Bafatá in the colony of Guinea in 1924. He completed elementary school on the island of Santiago in Cape Verde and attended São Vicente High School from 1938 to 1944, where he presided over the students' association and played soccer. He moved to Portugal in 1945 to study in Lisbon. He went to the same school as Agostinho Neto and demonstrated against NATO and the Portuguese fascist regime. He returned to Guinea after completing his degree and joined the Guinea Agricultural and Forestry Services in 1952.[1]
Political career
Cabral tried to start a recreational association in Guinea in 1954, but the colonial authorities shut it down. He frequently traveled to Portugal and Angola and founded the African Independence Party, which later became the PAIGC, in 1956. He left Lisbon for the last time in 1960 and set up the PAIGC headquarters in the Republic of Guinea. He began the armed independence struggle in 1963 with an attack on the barracks of Tite. Portugal assassinated him in 1973 but failed to stop the national liberation movement.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Carlos Lopes Pereira (2023-01-20). "Amílcar Cabral – African Marxist liberation leader – murdered 50 years ago by agents of Portuguese colonialism" Workers World. Archived from the original on 2023-01-21. Retrieved 2023-01-22.