Mário Pinto de Andrade
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Mário Pinto de Andrade 🇦🇴

Mario Coelho Pinto de Andrade (Known as "Mario de Andrade")
Sociologist, Essayist, Co-Founder and First President of MPLA, Cultural Historian
Born 1928-08-21 🇦🇴 Golungo Alto, Angola
Passed Away 1990-08-26 London, United Kingdom
Lifespan 62 years old
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"Culture is the soul of resistance; a revolution without cultural emancipation is merely a change of masters."

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Eminent Angolan sociologist, literary scholar, and revolutionary theorist who co-founded the MPLA, served as its first acting president, and compiled landmark anthologies of Black African poetry.

Biographical Record

Mario Coelho Pinto de Andrade was born on August 21, 1928, in Golungo Alto, Cuanza Norte. Educated in philology and sociology at the University of Lisbon and the Sorbonne in Paris, he was an editor of the landmark journal Presence Africaine in Paris alongside Alioune Diop.

A co-founder of the MPLA in 1956, Andrade served as its President from 1959 to 1962, coordinating international diplomatic recognition and guerrilla logistics. A brilliant cultural theorist, his anthologies Antologia da Poesia Negra de Expressão Portuguesa (1958) introduced lusophone African literature to the world. He later served as Minister of Information in Guinea-Bissau and authored a definitive biography of Amilcar Cabral.

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Luanda Central Cemetery
Luanda, Angola
GPS: -8.8250, 13.2260
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