Manuel Rui Monteiro

Manuel Rui Alves Monteiro was born on 4 November 1941 in Huambo, then Nova Lisboa, where he studied. A law graduate of the University of Coimbra, he practised there as a lawyer during the struggle for independence. Back in Angola after the Portuguese revolution of 1974, he was Minister of Information in the transitional government, headed departments of the liberation movement and became a university rector. He wrote the words of Angola's first national anthem.

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• NovelQuem me dera ser ondaManuel Rui Monteiro · 1982not translated into EnglishLiterature