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Agostinho Neto was an Angolan medical doctor who was born in the agricultural hinterland of Luanda City in 1922 and died in a Moscow hospital in 1979. He had been assimilated into Portuguese colonial society by gaining a school education at a Methodist mission station where his father was the minister, and he proceeded to university studies in ...
António Agostinho Neto (17 September 1922 – 10 September 1979) was an Angolan communist politician and poet. He served as the first president of Angola from 1975 to 1979, having led the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the war for independence (1961–1974).
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May 21, 2018 · António Agostinho Neto (1922-1979) was a leading African intellectual and nationalist in the three decades following the close of World War II. A doctor and poet, he was also the president of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, directing the armed struggle within Angola against the Portuguese colonial rule, and the first ...
António Agostinho Neto (Ícolo e Bengo, 17 de setembro de 1922 — Moscovo, 10 de setembro de 1979) foi um médico, escritor e político angolano, principal figura do país no século XX. Foi Presidente do Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola e em 1975 tornou-se o primeiro Presidente de Angola até 1979 .
Agostinho Neto. 1922–1979. Poet Agostinho Neto was born in Bengo Province, Angola, the son of a pastor and a professor. Before becoming a political leader, he studied medicine at the University of Lisbon and was a practicing physician.
1922–1979 Physician, poet, nationalist leader and president of Angola. The son of a Methodist minister, António Agostinho Neto received his high school education in Luanda. In 1947, after spending three ...
Agostinho Neto (əgōōshtēn´yōō nā´tōō), 1927–79, first president of independent Angola. A Portuguese-educated physician and poet, he founded the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) in 1956, directing the war of liberation against Portugal from exile with East bloc support.
