Afonso Pedro Canga | |
Office1: | Minister of Agriculture and Forestry |
Term Start1: | 2007 |
Term End1: | September 2016 |
Predecessor1: | Gilberto Buta Lutucuta |
Successor1: | Marcos Alexandre Nhunga |
President1: | José Eduardo dos Santos |
Birth Date: | 10 February 1959 |
Birth Place: | Angola |
Afonso Pedro Canga (born February 10, 1959) is an Angolan politician who served as the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry between 2007 and 2016.[1]
While at school, Canga taught Portuguese at the Regional School of the Ministry of Internal Trade. He completed his degree in agronomy and is an agricultural engineer. He has variously held the roles of General Director and later the Deputy National Director of the Agrarian Development Institute in Angola's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. He was also an engineer in the country's National Cotton Program. Between 1995 and 1999, he served as Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development before becoming full Minister in 2007.[2] He was replaced by President dos Santos in 2016.[3]