Uanhenga Xitu

Uanhenga Xitu is the pen name of Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho, born on 29 August 1924 in Calomboloca, in Icolo e Bengo. A nurse and an activist of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, he was arrested in 1959 by the Portuguese political police and held from 1962 to 1970 in the Tarrafal camp, in Cape Verde, where he wrote. After independence, he was provincial commissioner of Luanda and then Minister of Health, and sat for a long time in Parliament. He died in Luanda on 13 February 2014.

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• NarrativeMestre TamodaUanhenga Xitu · 1974not translated into EnglishLiterature