Luís de Almeida Cabral
| Luís Cabral | |
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| 1st President of Guinea-Bissau | |
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In office 24 September 1973 – 14 November 1980 |
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| Vice President |
Umaru Djaló João Bernardo Vieira |
| Preceded by | Office created |
| Succeeded by | João Bernardo Vieira |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Luís Severino de Almeida Cabral 11 April 1931 Bissau, Portuguese Guinea |
| Died | 30 May 2009 (aged 78) Torres Vedras, Portugal |
| Political party | African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde |
Luís Severino de Almeida Cabral (10 April 1931 – 30 May 2009) was the first President of Guinea-Bissau. He served from 1973 to 1980, when a military coup d'état led by João Bernardo Vieira deposed him. Luís Cabral was a half-brother of Amílcar Cabral, with whom he co-founded the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) in 1956.
Luís Cabral was born in the city of Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, on April 10, 1931 to mestiço (mixed-race) parents originally from the Cape Verde. He completed his primary school studies in the Cape Verde archipelago, which was also a Portuguese territory at that time. Later he received training in accountancy. He was also educated in Bissau and joined a Portuguese business, Companhia União Fabril.
in 1956 Cabral was one of the six founders of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC). In the early 1960s, PAIGC launched an anti-colonial guerrilla war against the Portuguese authorities. He helped organize a dock strike that was brutally suppressed by the Portuguese authorities. and resulted in a loss of more than 50 lives. This led to the PAIGC abandoning non-violence, which came as a shock to Cabral. Luís Cabral's rise to leadership began in 1973, after the assassination in Conakry, Guinea, of his half-brother Amílcar Cabral, the noted Pan-African intellectual and founder of the PAIGC. Leadership of the party, then engaged in fighting for independence from Portuguese rule for both Guinea-Bissau (then known as Portuguese Guinea) and for Cape Verde, fell to Aristides Pereira, who later became the president of Cape Verde. The Guinea-Bissau branch of the party, however, followed Luís Cabral.
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