Amilcar Cabral
In the 20th century national hero Amilcar Cabral played an important part in encouraging Cape Verdeans and people of Portuguese Guinea to support the opposition against colonial rule. He was born in 1924 in Portuguese Guinea of Cape Verdean parents. As a child he lived on Santiago and also on Sao Vicente. He scraped his way through school and later attended studies in Lisbon on agrarian engineering. After graduating he returned to Guinea.
In 1955 Cabral and another formed the PAIGC (Party for the independence of Guinea and Portugal). The party was not just focusing on the Portuguese, he was concerned that the Cape Verdeans were accepting the situation.
The international airport on Sal Island is named after Amilcar Cabral.
