Amilcar Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer and diplomat remembered as one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders. He led the nationalist movement of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands and the resulting war of independence in Guinea-Bissau, and was shot dead in January 1973, about eight months before Guinea-Bissau declared independence.
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was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer, diplomat, and half-brother of Luis Cabral. He was widely remembered as one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders.
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(1973-01-20)20 January 1973
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