The Conversation: Amílcar Cabral linked soil health to human freedom – the Guinea-Bissau leader’s ideas matter more than ever today
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Amílcar Cabral
Amílcar Lopes Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer, diplomat, and half-brother of Luís Cabral. He was widely remembered as one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders. He was also a pan-Africanist and intellectual nationalist revolutionary poet.
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culture · Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean politician (1924–1973) · politician · agricultural engineer · engineer · writer · agronomist · political scientist · poet · also Amílcar Cabral, Amilcar Cabral, Amílcar Lopes Cabral, Amilcar Lopes Cabral, Abel Djassi, Cabral
Born 12 September 1924 · Died 20 January 1973 · Q213416
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 4,096 Wikipedia readers in one day, 15.5× the usual 265, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 3 entries
Moviefone: The Return of Amílcar Cabral - Where to Watch
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Radio France Internationale: Amílcar Cabral: as múltiplas facetas do líder da luta de libertação
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At the IDFA (International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam)
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2024· 8 entries
publico: PS, BE, Livre e PAN juntam-se num voto de saudação ao centenário de Amílcar Cabral
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Observador: Marcha de homenagem a Amílcar Cabral marcada
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Diário de Notícias: Precisamos da lucidez de Amílcar Cabral
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dw: O centenário de Amílcar Cabral e o sonho adiado
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The Herald News: 'He was a thought leader': Amilcar Cabral’s 100th birthday celebration set for Sept. 14
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dw: PAIGC lamenta centenário de Amílcar Cabral sem comemoração
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Observador: Ex-combatentes portugueses lembram Amílcar Cabral
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Published “Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021” in The Lancet Neurology — cited 1,829 times.
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2023· 1 entry
publico: Amílcar Cabral, eu e a Finlândia
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2019· 3 entries
Foreign Affairs: Amílcar Cabral: A Nationalist and Pan-Africanist Revolutionary
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Washington Post: Amílcar Cabral’s life as a Pan-Africanist, anti-colonial revolutionary still inspires
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Libcom: Amilcar Cabral
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2018· 1 entry
dw: Amilcar Cabral: The collective liberation
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2017· 1 entry
Published “Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger <sup>*</sup>” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 3,686 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Libcom: Return to the Source: Selected Speeches of Amilcar Cabral
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2015· 1 entry
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013” in The Lancet — cited 5,008 times.
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2014· 1 entry
Published “Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013” in The Lancet — cited 9,253 times.
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2011· 2 entries
Published “Accumulation of sub-100 nm polymeric micelles in poorly permeable tumours depends on size” in Nature Nanotechnology — cited 2,263 times.
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Puts Amílcar Cabral's political views and ideologies in the spotlight
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2004· 1 entry
Published “The Body-Mass Index, Airflow Obstruction, Dyspnea, and Exercise Capacity Index in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 2,994 times.
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2002· 1 entry
Published “International Union of Pharmacology. XXVII. Classification of Cannabinoid Receptors” in Pharmacological Reviews — cited 2,333 times.
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1998· 1 entry
Published “The Structure of the Potassium Channel: Molecular Basis of K <sup>+</sup> Conduction and Selectivity” in Science — cited 6,099 times.
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1973· 4 entries
Died 1973-01-20.
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After leaving the reception at the Polish embassy in Conakry he was going to his home with his wife, Maria Helena Rodriguez
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Cabral led the PAIGC's guerrilla movement in Portuguese Guinea against the Portuguese government, which evolved into one of the most successful wars of independence in modern African history
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“Opis: po otrzymaniu informacji o śmierci Cabrala.”
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1972· 1 entry
Cabral began to form a People's Assembly in preparation for the independence of Guinea-Bissau
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1970· 1 entry
“National Liberation and Culture”
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1961· 1 entry
To institutionalize these commitments, though it was dissolved in 1966 as experienced women cadres were redirected to frontline roles
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1956· 1 entry
Was the founder of the PAIGC or Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde)
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1953· 1 entry
Conducted an agricultural census in Portuguese Guinea during which he traveled more than 60,000 kilometers
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1924· 1 entry
Born 1924-09-12.
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