Biography
Angolan writer, journalist and teacher born on December 2, 1935, in Benguela, Angola, where he did his primary studies. .
He attended high school studies in Porto, Gouveia and Viseu. In this city he took the Primary Teaching course. He worked as a primary school teacher in Picoto (Cucujães), Manteigas and Vodra. He settled permanently in Angola in 1959, where he taught in Porto Alexandre (Tombwa), Buso Mazi, and Bela Vista (Katchiungo), director of the Pereira de Eça School of Arts and Crafts (Onjiva). Appointed as Interim School Sub-Inspector in Bié, having subsequently taken a course for that position.
With independence, already in Luanda, where he had taken refuge, he assumed the position of Deputy Inspector and, with Prof. Rafael Godinho (Portuguese) makes the first manuals for primary education.
In 1977, after a forced interregnum, he leaves Education and is placed by Comrade António Jacinto in the newly created Instituto Nacional do Livro e do Disco (INALD) directed by Boaventura Cardoso.
In the journalistic field, he collaborated in Rádio Clube de Cabinda, "Noticias" magazine and in the newspaper "A provincia He temporarily directed "A voz do Bié" in 1972, the magazine "TVeja" (Revista de Televisão Pública de Angola), in 1983, the Jornal de Angola, the "Correio da Semana" which he founded in 1992 with Manuel Dioniso and the newspaper "Jango" also in 1992, after the death of its founders David Bernardino, Fernando and Miete Marcelino.
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In addition to these functions, he published several articles in the press. Of the 18 titles published in the field of children's literature, we highlight Estórias do Leão Velho (1985), Vou Contar (1988), Aqui, mas do Outros Lado (2000) and As Sete Vidas de um Gato (2002), with which he won the PALOP 98 prize for Portuguese Language for Children's Literature.
He also published a book of poetry, entitled Onda Dormida. He is a member of the Union of Angolan Journalists and the Union of Angolan Writers, of which he was president of the General Assembly (1992-1994).