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Arlindo Barbeitos

Died in 2021

Arlindo do Carmo Pires Barbeitos was born on 24 December 1940 in Catete, in the province of Bengo. Forced to leave Angola in 1961, he studied sociology and anthropology in Frankfurt, returned in 1971 to teach in the bases of the popular liberation movement, then went back to Germany, where he worked at the Institute of Ethnology of the Free University of Berlin. Back home in 1975, he taught at the university and was among the founders of the Union of Angolan Writers. He died in Luanda on 31 March 2021.

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