Amílcar Cabral summary

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Amílcar Cabral, (born 1921, Bafata, Portuguese Guinea—died Jan. 20, 1973, Conakry, Guinea), Guinean nationalist politician. In 1956 he founded the Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde, which in 1962 began a war of liberation against Portuguese forces. By the late 1960s Cabral controlled much of Portuguese Guinea. He was assassinated in 1973. His half-brother, Luís de Almeida Cabral, became the first president of independent Guinea-Bissau in 1974.

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