Gentil Ferreira Viana

Gentil Ferreira Viana (23 February 1935 – 2008)[1] founded, among others 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. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2008-02-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) (Portuguese)
  2. Irving Kaplan and Allison Butler Herrick. Angola, a Country Study, 1979. Page 126.


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