Pepetela

Pepetela

male, 68 years old
writer, A Geração da Utopia, University of Agostinho Neto, Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos, Lusophone, Camões Prize
Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos is a major Angolan writer of fiction. He writes under the name Pepetela. A white Angolan, Pepetela fought a...
Marcos C. Pontes

Marcos C. Pontes

male, 46 years old
astronaut, engineer, Lusophone, Soyuz TMA-8, Marcos César Pontes, from Sao Paulo state
Pontes graduated as a military pilot from the Brazil Air Force Academy, Pirassununga, Sao Paulo, in 1984. After one year of advanced jet training...
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

male
Portuguese language, Portuguese, Amazon Rainforest, New Tribes Mission, proselytization, Lusophone
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, name also written Davi Kobenawä Yanomamö is a shaman and Portuguese-speaking spokesperson of the Yanomami "índios". He cam...

Elisa Silva Andrade

female
professor, unesco, Lusophone
Elisa Andrade , Instituto Superior de Educação (Cape Verde) : Professor at the Instituto Superior de Educação in Praia. Prof. Andrade’s backgr...

Luis Fonseca

male
mp, United Nations, Executive Secretary, Cape Verdean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Community of Lusophone Countries, Community of Lusophone Countries (Cape Verde)
Luis Fonseca , CPLP - Community of Lusophone Countries (Cape Verde) : Executive Secretary of the Community of Lusophone Countries (CPLP)...

Fernando Arenas

male
Harvard University, University of Minnesota, Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota Press, Universidade Federal, Department of Spanish…Associate Professor of Lusophone
Fernando Arenas is an Associate Professor of Lusophone African, Portuguese, and Brazilian Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese...