Boaventura Cardoso Silva, Angolan writer and politician, was born in Luanda on 26th of July 1944. As a child, he lived for a few years in Malanje, but soon moved to Luanda where he attended primary and secondary school. He studied Social Science in a school founded by the MPLA and later got a degree in this discipline from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome. After independence, Cardoso actively participated in the formation of the MPLA government. He was Director of the National Institute of Book and Disk (INALD), Secretary of State for Culture, Minister of Information, Ambassador of Angola in France, Italy and Malta and representative of Angola to the United Nations (FAO, WFP and IFAD). In 2002, he was appointed Minister of Culture and held ...

Ana Paula Ribeiro Tavares, Angolan poet and historian, was born on 30 October 1952 in Lubango, in the province of Huíla, Angola. As a historian, Ana Paula Tavares collaborates with the Angolan Arquivo Histórico Nacional (National Historical Archive) and has conducted an extensive research in the areas of cultural patrimony, ethnology and museums, among others. Currently, her research is focused on Angolan literature. She coordinates a research group on African Literatures and Cultures at the CLEPUL (Centre of Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures) at the University of Lisbon. Ana Paula Tavares is renowned as the contemporary female Angolan poet, publishing in the post-independence period. Her first book of poetry —Ritos de Passagem [Rites of Passage]— was published in Angola in 1985 and has been republished in Portugal in ...

José Luandino Vieira (born José Vieira Mateus da Graça on May 4th, 1935) is an Angolan writer of short fiction and novels. He was devoted to Angolan independence, resulting in his arrest in 1961 after an interview with the BBC in which he disclosed secret lists of deserters from the Portuguese army fighting in Africa. He would remain in jail for eleven years. After the Angolan independence, Luandino Vieira was nominated for various positions: organized and directed the Popular Television of Angola from 1975 to 1978, directed the Department of Revolutionary Orientation MPLA until 1979; organized and directed the Angolan Institute of Cinema, 1979-1984. In the field of literature, he was one of the founders of the Union of Angolan Writers in 1975, and was its General Secretary since the end of 1980.He was also deputy secretary general of the Association of Afro-Asian Writers, from 1979 to 1984, and later became its secretary general ...