Manuela Margarido

Maria Manuela Conceição Carvalho Margarido (1925 Roça Olímpia, Ilha do Príncipe - March 10, 2007 in Lisbon) was a São Tomé and Príncipe (or Santomean) poet.

Manuela Margarido embraced the cause for the fight against colonialism, even in the 1950s, the affirmed the independence of the archipelago. In 1953, she rose her voice against the Batepá massacre perpetrated by Portuguese colonialism.

She denounced in poetry and against colonial oppression and the misery that Santomeans lived and worked in coffee and cocoa plantations.

She studied religiious studies, sociologym ethnology and film at Sorbonne in Paris where she was exiled.

She was later ambassador of her country in Brussels and took part in different international organizations.

In Lisbon, where she later lived, Margarido took part in the dissemination of her country's culture, having considered by Alda Espírito Santo, Caetano da Costa Alegre and Francisco José Tenreiro, one of the greatest names in Santomean poetry.

In other works, she was consecutive council member of the Atalaia review, of the Interdisciplinary Science, Technolocy and Society Centre at the University of Lisbon (Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade da Universidade de Lisboa (CICTSUL)).

She later died in the former imperial capital of Lisbon that she fought at the age of 83 at Hospital São Francisco Xavier, where she was hospitalized. Her funeral took place at the headquarters of the Grande Oriente Lusitano

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