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SOCIAL ACTIVISTS from Guinea-Bissau

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This page contains a list of the greatest Guinea-Bissauan Social Activists. The pantheon dataset contains 538 Social Activists, 1 of which were born in Guinea-Bissau. This makes Guinea-Bissau the birth place of the 68th most number of Social Activists behind Libya and Haiti.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Guinea-Bissauan Social Activists of all time. This list of famous Guinea-Bissauan Social Activists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Amílcar Cabral (1924 - 1973)

With an HPI of 63.30, Amílcar Cabral is the most famous Guinea-Bissauan Social Activist.  His biography has been translated into 44 different languages on wikipedia.

Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral (Portuguese: [ɐˈmilkaɾ ˈlɔpɨʃ kɐˈβɾal]; (1924-09-12)12 September 1924 – (1973-01-20)20 January 1973) was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer, and diplomat. He was one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders. He was also a pan-Africanist and intellectual nationalist revolutionary poet. Also known by the nom de guerre Abel Djassi, Cabral led the nationalist movement of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands and the ensuing war of independence in Guinea-Bissau. He was assassinated on 20 January 1973, about eight months before Guinea-Bissau's unilateral declaration of independence. He was deeply influenced by Marxism, becoming an inspiration to revolutionary socialists and national independence movements worldwide.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as social activists born between 1924 and 1924. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased social activists include Amílcar Cabral.

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