Amílcar (Lopes da Costa Cabral) Cabral (1924 - 1973)

Born 12 Sep 1924 in Bafatá, Portuguese Guinea

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Died 20 Jan 1973 at age 48 in Conakry, Guinea

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Amílcar (Lopes da Costa Cabral) Cabral is Notable.

Amílcar (Lopes da Costa Cabral) Cabral has Fulani ancestry.

Amílcar Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer, and diplomat. He was one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders. He was also a pan-Africanist and intellectual nationalist revolutionary poet.^[1]

Cabral was born on 12 September 1924 in the town of Bafatá, Portuguese Guinea (located in modern-day Guinea-Bissau). He was the son of Juvenal António Lopes da Costa Cabral and Iva Pinhel Évora, both from Santiago, Cape Verde. His father was a school teacher and schoolmaster. His mother separated from Amílcar's father by 1929. She was a shop owner and hotel worker, having been unable to pursue higher education. Quintino Medi has written that Iva was Amílcar's stepmother, and that his birth mother was a Fula woman from Guinea-Bissau.^[2]

Cabral attended the secondary school Liceu Gil Eanes in Mindelo, Cape Verde. He won a scholarship to attend the Instituto Superior de Agronomia in Lisbon, Portugal. There he was a founder of student movements, such as the clandestine Center of African Studies. Continuing the literary and political movement négritude developed in 1930s Paris, the students gathered to study African culture. The students became dedicated to opposing the ruling dictatorship of Portugal, and promoting the cause of independence for the Portuguese colonies in Africa.

Amilcar (age 38) traveled to New York City, arriving on 11 December 1962 to work with the United Nations Special Political and Decolonization Committee.^[3] Cabral led the national liberation movement of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands and the ensuing war of independence in Guinea-Bissau from 1963 until his death.

Amílcar Cabral was assassinated on 20 January 1973 in Conakry, about eight months before Guinea-Bissau's unilateral declaration of independence. He was buried in Fortaleza de São José da Amura, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Amílcar Cabral," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%ADlcar_Cabral (accessed March 21, 2024).
2. ↑ "Quintino Medi’s journey to discover Amilcar Cabral’s Fula mother in Guinea Bissau." August 19, 2021.
3. ↑ Passenger List: "New York State, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1917-1967"
   The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; NAI Number: 2848504; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004; Record Group Number: 85; Series Number: A3998; NARA Roll Number: 815
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1277 #6855738 (accessed 21 March 2024)
   Name: Amilcar Cabral; Nationality: Guinee Portugaise; Arrival Age: 38; Birth Date: 12 Sep 1924; Birth Place: Bafata, Guinée Portugaise; Arrival Date: 11 Dec 1962; Arrival Place: New York, New York, USA; Destination: New York; Airline: AF; Flight Number: 015.
4. ↑ Burial: Find A Grave: Memorial #225861879 (has image, accessed 21 March 2024)
   Memorial page for Amílcar Cabral (12 Sep 1924-20 Jan 1973), citing Fortaleza de São José da Amura, Bissau, Bissau Sector, Bissau Sector, Guinea-Bissau; Maintained by The Silent Forgotten (contributor 46537737).
   Ancestry Record 60541 #195403851 (accessed 21 March 2024)

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