Amílcar Cabral

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Amílcar Cabral was a prominent Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean revolutionary leader, theorist, and anti-colonial strategist whose ideas on liberation and pan-Africanism deeply influenced African and global leftist movements.

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instanceOf agrarian engineer
anti-colonial theorist
pan-Africanist
politician
revolutionary leader
abbreviationOfFoundedOrganization PAIGC NERFINISHED
advocated class analysis within anti-colonial movements
the role of culture in national liberation
almaMater Instituto Superior de Agronomia NERFINISHED
assassinated true
assassinatedBy dissident members of PAIGC
birthCountry Portuguese Guinea NERFINISHED
birthDate 1924-09-12
birthPlace Bafatá NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath assassination
citizenship Cape Verde NERFINISHED
Guinea-Bissau NERFINISHED
commemoratedBy Amílcar Cabral International Airport in Praia, Cape Verde NERFINISHED
statues and memorials in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde
countryOfDeath Guinea NERFINISHED
deathDate 1973-01-20
educatedIn Lisbon NERFINISHED
ethnicity Cape Verdean NERFINISHED
familyName Cabral NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork agronomy
political theory
revolutionary strategy
founded African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde NERFINISHED
foundedInCity Bissau NERFINISHED
foundedInYear 1956
fullName Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral NERFINISHED
givenName Amílcar NERFINISHED
hasSibling Luís Cabral NERFINISHED
ideology African socialism NERFINISHED
Marxism
pan-Africanism
influenced African liberation movements
Frantz Fanon NERFINISHED
global leftist movements
influencedBy Frantz Fanon NERFINISHED
Karl Marx
Vladimir Lenin NERFINISHED
knownFor founding the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde
influence on pan-Africanism
leading the independence movement of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde from Portuguese colonial rule
theoretical contributions to anti-colonial and liberation thought
languageSpoken Crioulo
French
Portuguese
legacy considered a major theorist of national liberation in the Global South
movement African socialism
Marxism NERFINISHED
anti-colonialism
pan-Africanism
notableWork “Return to the Source” NERFINISHED
“Unity and Struggle” NERFINISHED
occupation agronomist
politician
revolutionary
writer
organized armed struggle against Portuguese colonial rule in Guinea-Bissau
placeOfDeath Conakry NERFINISHED
politicalParty African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde NERFINISHED
siblingRelation Luís Cabral was the first President of Guinea-Bissau NERFINISHED
spouse Ana Maria Cabral NERFINISHED

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PAIGC foundedBy Amílcar Cabral
PAIGC generalSecretary Amílcar Cabral
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence leader Amílcar Cabral