Gentil Ferreira Viana

Gentil Ferreira Viana (1935/6 – February 23, 2008)[1] founded, with other separatist leaders, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). In 1974, he and Joaquim Pinto de Andrade broke away from the MPLA and formed the Activa Revolt;[2] the two men died on the same day in 2008.

References

  1. ↑ (Portuguese)
  2. ↑ Irving Kaplan and Allison Butler Herrick. Angola, a Country Study, 1979. Page 126.