Agostinho neto '' English''

Agostinho Neto first President of Angola
Term: November 11, 1975 - September 10, 1979
Date of birth: September 17, 1922
Place of birth: Icolo and Bengo
Date of death: September 10, 1979
Place of death: Moscow
Political party: MPLA
Occupation: doctor


 the "immortal guide of the Angolan revolution," in recognition of his great intellectual capacity, posture of a statesman, fighter, politician, man of culture and its contribution to the liberation struggle not only for Angola but of other peoples.
Early Agostinho Neto became the combat negative manifestations such as tribalism, regionalism, racism and other prejudices detrimental to national unity and reconciliation among Angolans. very early, fought for the independency of the continent.
Agostinho Neto was born on September 17, 1922 in the village of Kaxicane, Icolo e Bengo region, about 60 kilometers from Luanda, and graduated in medicine from the University of Lisbon.
After completing secondary school course in Luanda, Neto worked in health services. Would quickly become a prominent figure in the nationalist cultural movement that during the forties, met a phase of vigorous expansion.

For their involvement in political activities experienced prison for the first time in 1951, when he was arrested when gathered signatures for the World Peace Conference in Stockholm. His arrest triggered a wave of protests on a large scale. There were meetings, wrote letters and sent up to petitions signed by French intellectuals in the foreground, as Jean-Paul Sart, Andrew Mauriac, Aragon and Simone de Beauvoir, the Cuban poet Nicolás Gullen and the Mexican painter Diego Rivera, and in 1957, Agostinho Neto, was elected Political Prisoner of the Year by Amnesty International.
In 1958, Agostinho Neto graduated in medicine, and married Maria Eugenia, on the day they completed the course. That same year, was a founder of the clandestine anticolonial movement (MAC), bringing together patriots from the various Portuguese colonies.
On December 30, 1959. Neto returned to his country with his wife, Maria Eugenia, and the child of tender age, and began to practice medicine among his countrymen. On June 8, 1960, the Director of PIDE came personally hold in your Consultório Neto in Luanda.
A peaceful demonstration in the home village of Neto in protest against his arrest was received by police bullets. Thirty two hundred killed and wounded was the stock of what has become known as the Massacre of Icolo and Bengo. Fearing the consequences that could arise from its presence in Angola, even finding themselves arrested, the colonialists Neto moved to a prison in Lisbon and later sent him to Cape Verde, Santo Antao and then to Santiago, where he continued to practice medicine under constant surveillance policy.
However, shortly after leaving prison, Agostinho Neto, in July 1962, smuggled out of Portugal with his wife and small children, arriving in Leopoldville (Kinshasa), where the time MPLA had its seat abroad,

The November 11, 1975, after 14 years of hard struggle against colonialism and imperialism, proclaimed the national independence, purpose for which they gave their lives so many and such worthy sons of the Angolan homeland, this time having been sworn in as President of the ( then) Republic of Angola.

"My mother
(All black mothers
whose children have left)
You taught me to expect
and waited in difficult times.
But life
killed me this mystical hope.
I no longer hope
I am one for whom we expected. "