Marcelino dos Santos

Marcelino dos Santos was born in 1929 in Lumbo, in northern Mozambique, and went to study in Lisbon, where he frequented the Casa dos Estudantes do Império, a hotbed of future African leaders. Having moved to Paris in 1951, he studied at the Sorbonne, was secretary general of the conference of nationalist organisations of the Portuguese colonies, then one of the founders of Frelimo in 1962, of which he became vice-president. After independence, he was a minister, then presided over the People's Assembly. He died in Maputo in 2020.

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• PoetryCanto do Amor NaturalMarcelino dos Santos · 1987not translated into EnglishLiterature