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Amilcar Cabral

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Category:	Cultures and Community
Created:	Feb 19, 2005
Type:	Public
Members:	578
Owner:	Tosh Lopi
Language:	English
Country:	United Kingdom

WHEN IT ALL HAPPENED...

1924: Amýlcar Cabral is born on September 12, in Bafatý, Guinea. ý 1932: Moves to Cabo Verde. ý 1943: Finishes secondary schooling in Mindelo, on the island of Sýo Vicente. ý 1944: Obtains a job at the National Printing Office, in Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on Sýo Tiago Island. ý 1945: Is awarded a scholarship and begins his studies at the Agronomy Institute, in Lisbon. ý 1950: Graduates from the institute and starts working at the Agronomy Center, in Santarým. ý 1952: Returns to Bissau under contract with the Agricultural and Forestry Services of Portuguese Guinea. ý 1955: The Governor demands that he leave the colony; Cabral goes to work in Angola; he joins the Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). ý 1956: The African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde and Guinea (PAIGC) is founded in Bissau. ý 1960: The PAIGC establishes a delegation in Conakry, capital of the Republic of Guinea; China gives support to the training of members of the PAIGC. ý 1961: Morocco welcomes members of the PAIGC. ý 1963: Open warfare breaks out on January 23, with an attack on the military installations at Tite, in southern Guinea-Bissau; the PAIGC sets up a northern battlefront in July. ý 1970: Pope Paul VI grants an audience on July 1 to Amýlcar Cabral, Agostinho Neto and Marcelino dos Santos. On November 22, the Governor of Guinea-Bissau decides to establish a ýcommandoý operation to which he gives the name of ýMar Verdeý (Green Sea), whose goal is to capture or eliminate the leaders of the PAIGC located in Conakry: it fails! ý 1973: Amýlcar Cabral is assassinated in Conakry on January 20.