CABRAL, AMÍLCAR


Meaning of CABRAL, AMÍLCAR in English

born 1921, Bafata, Portuguese Guinea

died Jan. 20, 1973, Conakry, Guinea

Guinean nationalist politician.

In 1956 he founded the Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde, which in 1962 began a war of liberation against Portuguese forces. By the late 1960s Cabral controlled much of Portuguese Guinea. He was assassinated in 1973. His half-brother, Luís de Almeida Cabral, became the first president of independent Guinea-Bissau in 1974.

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