People on Angola's street signs

Deolinda Rodrigues

5 Deolinda Rodrigues Francisco de Almeida was an Angolan revolutionary, writer, and poet. She was a member of the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola and, in addition to seeing combat, worked for...

Agostinho Neto

5 António Agostinho Neto Kilamba was an Angolan communist revolutionary, politician and poet. He served as the first president of Angola from 1975 to 1979, after leading the Popular Movement for the...

Amílcar Cabral

5 Amílcar Lopes Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer, diplomat, and half-brother of Luís Cabral who was the 1st President of Guinea-Bissau. He was...

Fidel Castro

3 Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as prime minister from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008....

Samora Machel

3 Samora Moisés Machel was a Mozambican politician and revolutionary. A socialist in the tradition of Marxism–Leninism, he served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in...

Pedro de Castro Van Dúnem

2 Pedro de Castro van Dúnem, also known as Comandante Loy, was an Angolan politician. He served in various leading functions within the MPLA during the Angolan liberation struggle against Portuguese...

Katyavala Bwila I

2 Katyavala Bwila I, ou simplesmente Katyavala I, foi o primeiro Soma Inene do Reino Bailundo, sendo portanto fundador do país Bailundo, a maior de todas as nações ovimbundo.

Anibal João Melo

2 Anibal João da Silva Melo is a writer, journalist, and was a member of the National Assembly of Angola. Melo currently serves in the position of the Ministro da Comunicação Social.

Paulo Dias de Novais

2 Paulo Dias de Novais, a fidalgo of the Royal Household, was a Portuguese colonizer of Africa in the 16th century and the first Captain-Governor of Portuguese Angola. He was the grandson of the...

Joseph of Anchieta

2 José de Anchieta y Díaz de Clavijo, SJ was a Spanish missionary to the Portuguese colony of Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's history in the first...

Mary, mother of Jesus

2 Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under various titles such as virgin or queen, many...

Steve Biko

2 Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known...

Saíde Mingas

2 Avelino Henrique Saíde Vieira Dias Rodrigues Mingas foi um economista, escritor, militar e político, figura destacada na luta anticolonial angolana.

Jesus

2 Jesus, also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and by various other names and titles, was a 1st-century Jewish preacher and religious leader in the Roman province of Judaea. He is the...

Kwame Nkrumah

2 Francis Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from Britain....

Fernando Monteiro de Castro Soromenho

2 Fernando Monteiro de Castro Soromenho was a Portuguese journalist and writer of fiction and ethnology. He is regarded both as a Portuguese neo-realist and a novelist of Angolan literature.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

2 Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952...