Maria Eugénia Da Silva Neto

“Ask the sun why on it´s third planet, the earth, there are human beings that have no soil to grow out of. They are Apatrides, denied of that right from others! Mandated by whom? By you sun?”

 Maria Eugenia da Silva Neto, joined Angola’s independence movement and then married Agostinho Neto, who would later become the first President of Angola.  She is an acclaimed writer, author of more than ten works of poetry and children’s literature.

She founded and chairs, since 2006, the Foundation Dr. António Agostinho Neto.

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