Jacinto, António

Jacinto, António

▪ Angolan poet
byname  of António Jacinto Do Amaral Martins,  pseudonym  Orlando Tavora 
born Sept. 28, 1924, São Paulo de Luanda, Portuguese West Africa [now Luanda, Angola]
died June 23, 1991, Lisbon, Port.

      white Angolan poet, short-story writer, and cabinet minister in his country's first postwar government.

      The son of Portuguese settlers in Angola, Jacinto became associated with militant movements against Portuguese colonial rule and was arrested in 1961. He was sent to São Paulo Prison in Luanda and then served 14 years in the notorious prison camp at Tarrafal in the Cape Verde Islands. His first poetry anthologies were published during this time, and, after Angola gained independence (1975), he joined in the government of Agostinho Neto, leader of the Marxist-oriented Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. Jacinto helped oversee educational reforms and cultural activities.

      Jacinto's poetry addresses the oppression of the Angolan peoples at the hands of the Portuguese. Many of his poems were turned into songs that became part of the folklore of newly independent Angola. Since the publication of Colectãnea de Poemas in 1961, his poetry has appeared in virtually all anthologies of Lusophone African literature. His book Sobrevivir em Tarrafal de Santiago (1982; “Surviving in Tarrafal de Santiago”) recounts his harsh imprisonment in the Cape Verde Islands.

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