SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Amílcar Cabral

1924 - 1973

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Amílcar Lopes Cabral (Portuguese: [ɐˈmilkaɾ ˈlɔpɨʃ kɐˈbɾal]; (1924-09-12)12 September 1924 – (1973-01-20)20 January 1973) 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. Also known by the nom de guerre Abel Djassi, he led the nationalist movement of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands and the ensuing war of independence in Guinea-Bissau. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Amílcar Cabral is the 94th most popular social activist (down from 88th in 2019), the most popular biography from Guinea-Bissau and the most popular Guinea-Bissauan Social Activist.

Amílcar cabral is most famous for being the founder of the african independence movement in guinea-bissau and as the leader of the african liberation movement in guinea-bissau.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Amílcar Cabral ranks 94 out of 840. Before him are Jimmy Hoffa, Alexei Navalny, Widukind, Jane Addams, Beatrice Cenci, and An Jung-geun. After him are Stenka Razin, Denis Mukwege, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Errico Malatesta, Mairead Maguire, and Frank Costello.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Amílcar Cabral ranks 38. Before him are Kōbō Abe, J. D. Tippit, Sidney Lumet, Ezer Weizman, Benny Hill, and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. After him are Lee Marvin, Willard Boyle, Antony Hewish, Luigi Nono, Henry Mancini, and Dmitry Yazov. Among people deceased in 1973, Amílcar Cabral ranks 41. Before him are Víctor Jara, Ingeborg Bachmann, Gerard Kuiper, Jacques Maritain, Hans Albert Einstein, and Lon Chaney Jr.. After him are Maurice René Fréchet, Frank Costello, Luis Carrero Blanco, Dickinson W. Richards, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Emmy Göring.

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In Guinea-Bissau

Among people born in Guinea-Bissau, Amílcar Cabral ranks 1 out of 38. After him are João Bernardo Vieira (1939), Malam Bacai Sanhá (1947), Luís Cabral (1931), Carmen Pereira (1937), Henrique Rosa (1946), Kumba Ialá (1953), Carlos Gomes Júnior (1949), Carlos Correia (1933), José Mário Vaz (1957), Umaro Sissoco Embaló (1972), and Eder (1987).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Guinea-Bissau

Among social activists born in Guinea-Bissau, Amílcar Cabral ranks 1. 

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