Angola : Viriato da Cruz : o homem e o mito
Subtitle: Porto Amboim (Angola) 1928 - Beijing (China) 1973
By: coordenadores, Edmundo Rocha, Francisco Soares e Moisés Fernandes
Publisher: Prefácio; Caxinde
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lisboa; Luanda
Language: por
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9789898022707
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Biography; Nationalism; History; Angolan Poets; Political activists; Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola
Other titles: Viriato da Cruz
Description: Political biography of Viriato da Cruz, poet and founder of the PCA (Angolan Communist Party) and first general secretary of the MPLA (Popular movement for the Liberation of Angola). Disillusioned with the different nationalist movements in Angola he emerged in Beijing at the Afro-Asian Writers' Meeting. After playing an important role at the beginning of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, denouncing the Soviets, he then fell into disgrace with Mao Zedong's regime due to his opinion that a Chinese-style revolution in Africa was not feasible.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-342).