2024Amílcar Cabral - 100th Birthday - First Day Cover

The twelfth of September 2024 marks the centenary of the birth of Amílcar Cabral. “A simple African man”, as he described himself, “doing his duty in the context of his time”, Amílcar Cabral gained widespread recognition and prominence not just for having masterminded and led the most successful fight for national liberation in the former Portuguese colonies in Africa, which led to the establishment of two independent states, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, but also for the valuable theoretical legacy on which he based that struggle.