Alda do Espírito Santo

Alda do Espírito Santo was born on 30 April 1926 in São Tomé, into a family of the local elite. She went to study in Portugal, frequented the Casa dos Estudantes do Império in Lisbon, where the leaders of the African independence movements were formed, and returned in 1953 to teach. Arrested by the political police in 1965, she became, after independence, Minister of Education and Culture, then of Information, and presided over the National Assembly from 1980 to 1991. She died in Luanda on 9 March 2010.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryÉ nosso o solo sagrado da terraAlda do Espírito Santo · 1978not translated into EnglishLiterature