João Melo

Aníbal João da Silva Melo was born on 5 September 1955 in Luanda. He studied law at Coimbra and then in Angola, obtained a degree in social communication in Brazil, then a master's in communication and culture in Rio de Janeiro. A journalist at the national radio, at the Jornal de Angola and at the Angola Press agency, he later headed several news organisations, public and private. A founding member of the Angolan writers' union, of which he is secretary general, he was elected a member of parliament, then appointed Minister of Social Communication in 2017.

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• Short storiesImitação de Sartre & Simone de BeauvoirJoão Melo · 1999not translated into EnglishLiterature