Amílcar Lopes Cabral (Portuguese: [ɐˈmilkaɾ ˈlɔpɨʃ kɐˈbɾal]; 12 September 1924 – 20 January 1973) was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer, and diplomat. He was widely remembered as one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders.[1][2] He was also a pan-Africanist and intellectual nationalist revolutionary poet.[