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Agostinho Neto

Died in 1979

Agostinho Neto was born on 17 September 1922 in Caxicane, in Ícolo e Bengo, the son of a Methodist pastor and a schoolteacher. A medical student in Coimbra and then Lisbon, graduating in 1958, he was arrested several times by the Portuguese political police and deported to Cape Verde. A leader of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, which he had helped to found, he became the first president of independent Angola on 11 November 1975. He died in Moscow on 10 September 1979.

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