- Born
- September 12, 1924
- Died
- January 20, 1973 (aged 48)
- Place of birth
- Bafatá, Guinea Bissau
- Also known as
- Abel Djassi
Biography
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.