Amilcar Cabral

clipped from africavenir.com Remembering Amilcar Cabral: Poet, Revolutionary, Politician and Military Strategist On 20 January, 1973 Amilcar Cabral was kidnapped in Guinea-Conakry and shot by an assassin in the service of the Portuguese secret police, PIDE. In this article, Kwame Opoku pays tribute to Cabral, who was a symbol of a new leadership emerging on the continent.