Amílcar Cabral

Amílcar Lopes Cabral (September 12th 1924 - January 20th 1973), Abel Djassi of his pseudonym, is a politician of Guinea-Bissau and Islands of the Cape Verde. He is founder of the Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné E Cabo Verde (African Parti for independence Guinea and Cape Verde or PAIGC ) which brought to Independence these two states colonized by the Portugal.

Biography

Amílcar Cabral was born in Portuguese Guinea (with Bafata) in 1924 from Bissau-Guinean mother and father originating in Cape Verde. It leaves to study the Agronomie with Lisbon where it will remain until in 1952. It there cotoie of the militants favorable to the release of the African colonies of the Portuguese colonial empire. Some of these militants will become leaders of the independence fight in Portuguese-speaking, Western and southern Africa, such Mario de Andrade, Agostinho Neto, Viriato Da Cruz (which will become the 1st secretary of MPLA) all the three in Angola, Eduardo Mondlane (founder of the Frelimo, Mozambique), Marcelino Dos Santos and Vasco Cabral.

Of return in Guinea-Bissau as agronomist, he intends to contribute to improve the condition of his people and to put an end to the Portuguese colonial domination.

In 1956 it founds, with Luiz Cabral, his half-brother (future president of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau), Aristide Perreira (future president of the republic of Cape Verde), Abilio Duarte (future Minister and president of the National Assembly of Cape Verde), the PAIGC, organization then clandestine. The PAIGC fights against the Portuguese army on several faces starting from the adjoining countries, the Guinea Conakry in particular and Casamance, province of Senegal. He manages little by little to control the south of the country, setting up new politico-administrative structures in the released zones. “Nobody can doubt, among our people, as at any other African people, that this national liberation war in which we are committed does not belong to very whole Africa”, he declared. In parallel, Amílcar Cabral deploys an extremely intense diplomatic activity to make known its movement and to legitimate the action near the international community of it, and in 1972 the the United Nations end up regarding the PAIGC “as true and legitimates representing people of Guinea and Cape Verde”.

Amílcar Cabral dies assassinated on January 20th, 1973 with Conakry (Guinea-Conakry), six months only before the independence of the Guinea-Bissau. Its assassins are members of his party, probably handled by the authorities Portuguese and profiting from complicities to the more high level in the Guinean State. Amilcar Cabral will thus see never the recognition of the independence of the Guinea-Bissau and of Cape Verde by Portugal on September 10th, 1973, causes for which it fought during more than twenty years.

During the investigation intended to make the light into the assassination, Ahmed Sékou Touré made disappear all the incriminating evidences while being satisfied to show Portugal (the General António Spínola and PIDE, Portuguese political police). The murderers of Cabral will justify their gesture by the fact of the domination of the mongrels and their monopolization of the capacity. Amilcar Cabral was an example of cultural interbreeding but the proximity of his/her brother, biological mongrel and that of the elite capverdienne constituted a proof of the ambiguous position of the leader of the revolution. Sékou Touré also played a part, until now blur but it is known that he had always criticized the seizure of Capverdiens on the leading structures of the Guinea-Bissau. Moreover, it is known today that a project of Large Guinea existed and was discussed between Bissau and Conakry, which felt close ideologically (socialism) and sociologiquement. This project was fought by Capverdiens until their ousting because he promised the supremacy of the Blacks. It is with the death of Sékou Touré into 1984 that this project will be put at the oubliettes.

External bonds

Biography of Amilcar Cabral of the Diplomatic World

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