Leeds Luso Guineense Association

Amílcar Cabral

Biografia

Amílcar Lopes Cabral on 20 January 1923 was an agronomic engineer, writer, Marxist and nationalist guerrilla and politician. Also known by his nom de guerre Abel Djassi, Cabral founded In 1956 the "Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde" P.A.I.G.C. He was assassinated in 1973 by Guinea-native agents of the Portuguese colonial authorities, just months before Guinea-Bissau declared unilateral independence. He was born on September 12, 1924 in Bafatá, Portuguese Guinea, son of a Cape Verdean father and Guinean mother. Cabral was educated at a licéu in Cape Verde and later in Lisbon (the capital of Portugal which was the colonial power that ruled over Portuguese Guinea) at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia. While an agronomy student in Lisbon he founded student movements dedicated to African liberation.