(Sacred Hope are the collected poems of Augustinho Neto. O...)
Sacred Hope are the collected poems of Augustinho Neto. Original published by the African Writer's Union in Angola.
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1974
(A Renuncia Impossivel, Poemas Ineditos)
A Renuncia Impossivel, Poemas Ineditos
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1985
(...Ainda O Meu Sonho... (Discuros Sobre A Cultura Naciona...)
...Ainda O Meu Sonho... (Discuros Sobre A Cultura Nacional) *Sobre a uniao dos escritores *sobre a literatura *sobre a cultura nacional *sobre as artes plasticas *sobre a associacao dos escritores afro-asiaticos
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1985
Doctor Former president of Angola poet
António Agostinho Neto was born Antonio on September 17, 1922 in Icolo e Bengo, Bengo province, Angola, into the family of Agostinho and Mary d Silva Neto. His father, Agostinho Neto was a Methodist church pastor, while his mother, Mary d Silva Neto, was a kindergarten teacher.
Agostinho was one of the few privileged Africans who received a Secondary School education at Liceu Salvador Correia, Luanda. He completed his secondary education in 1944 and worked for Portuguese Colonial Health Service for a period of time. He took part in the formation of cultural associations which were an expression of African nationalism at a time when political organizations were forbidden by the Portuguese authorities.
In 1947, he went to Portugal to study medicine, with specialization in gynecology, at the University of Lisbon and then at Coimbra, through a scholarship offered by a US Methodist Church. Along with other African students, Neto took an active part in opposing the Salazar dictatorship in Portugal. He was arrested and imprisoned on three occasions for organizing petitions, joining in demonstrations, and writing poetry. (His poems mirrored the harsh conditions of African life under Portuguese colonialism and the longing of his people for freedom and justice.) Neto was now well-known as a leading African intellectual and nationalist, and some of the most famous international writers, artists, and liberal politicians petitioned for and secured his release. In 1958 he completed his medical studies, which had been interrupted by his imprisonment, and the next year returned to Angola with his Portuguese wife, Maria Eugenia.
On his return to Angola in 1959, Agostinho Neto started a medical practice where he welcomed all patients, not minding their financial status or background. At the same time he continued with his writing work. One line of a poem expressed his belief in the inevitability of the victory of African nationalism with the words "No one can stop the rain."
He had hardly begun his work as a doctor when he was again arrested, in his consulting room. This action sparked off a demonstration in his home village. Thirty people were killed and many injured as Portuguese soldiers fired on the crowd. The Portuguese exiled Neto to the Cape Verde Islands and later sent him to Portugal, where he was first imprisoned and then kept under house arrest. In 1962 he and his wife and two small children escaped to Morocco and from there travelled to Léopoldville (now Kinshasa, Zaire).
Neto was now the most famous of the Angolan nationalist leaders, and in the same year he was elected as the president of the liberation movement, MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola). For the next 12 years Neto directed the armed struggle of MPLA within Angola against Portuguese colonial rule. He travelled to Europe, the Soviet Union, and other African countries to rally support for his organization. During the 1960s several volumes of his poetry were published. Some were translated and published in other languages, including English. In 1974 a coup in Portugal toppled the Salazar dictatorship. Neto, as the head of MPLA, opened the negotiations with Portugal and with other Angolan liberation movements which led to the independence of Angola.
In 1975, Angola became an independent Nation. It was divided among its three warring independence movements. The MPLA forces, however, with Cuban help, held the central part of the country, including the capital, and Neto, a Marxist, was proclaimed president.
He became the first president of independent Angola in 1975, after his party MPLA succeeded in defeating the other two political parties and established a one-party state.
His birthday is celebrated by Angolans as National Heroes Day and is a public holiday.
He joined the Angolan Liberation Movement, while still in exile, and became the President of Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in 1962.
The prime hospital in the Cape Verdean capital, Praia, is named after him – Hospital Agostinho Neto (HAN), while an airport and a morna in Cape Verde is dedicated to him.
(...Ainda O Meu Sonho... (Discuros Sobre A Cultura Naciona...)
1985(Sacred Hope are the collected poems of Augustinho Neto. O...)
1974(A Renuncia Impossivel, Poemas Ineditos)
1985His political views were clearly seen in his works. His works were inspired by the quest for freedom and published in various Angolan and Portuguese reviews. It was all for these reasons that he is rightly known as ‘the father of modern Angola’.
Quotations: “Our contribution has to be given not only for the liquidation of the colonial system but also for the liquidation of ignorance, disease and primitive forms of social organization. ”
Neto was quiet, reserved, and competent in his dealings.
Physical Characteristics: He was a Black man
He was married, and had a son and two daughters
