Organization of Angolan Women explained

The Organization of Angolan Women (Portuguese: Organização Mulher Angolana (OMA)) is a political organisation in Angola, which was founded in 1962 to target women to support the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola. It was co-founded by Deolinda Rodrigues Francisco de Almeida.[1]

History

The Organization of Angolan Women was established in 1962 and was originally founded to rally support for the new political party known as the MPLA.[2] [3] [4] Once Angola was officially independent of Portugal in 1975 following the Angolan War of Independence, the Organization of Angolan Women provided the best opportunity for female activism in local government.[5] Total involvement faltered in the 1980s. In 1985 membership reached 1.8 million, but by 1987 membership dropped to fewer than 1.3 million. Rural violence and regional destabilization disheartened many of the rural members. However, it was also during the 1980s that Angola passed the first anti-discrimination laws and established strict literacy laws to support uneducated women.[6]

The organization established its first national executive body in 1976, and it elected Ruth Neto, the sister of the president of Angola, as the national co-ordinator for OMA.[7] [8] When the organization was restructured in 1983,[8] she was elected as the secretary general of the OMA and the head of its fifty-three-member national committee. She was re-elected on March 2, 1988, and served as the secretary general for twenty-one years.[9] The OMA expanded education for women and created programs to increase literacy among women, and during the 1980s the Angolan government created laws against gender discrimination in wages and working conditions.

In 1999, Luzia Inglês Van-Dúnem was elected secretary-general of the OMA, and she was re-elected in 2005.[10] [11] [12] She was succeeded in 2021 by Joana Tomás.[13]

Secretaries general

Notes and References

  1. Book: Moorman . Marissa J. . Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times . 15 October 2008 . Ohio University Press . 978-0-8214-4304-0 . 3 December 2021 . en.
  2. Book: Smith, Bonnie G.. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. 2008. Oxford University Press. 9780195148909. 54. en.
  3. Web site: Liberation in Southern Africa: The Organization of Angolan Women. African Activist Archive (Michigan State University). en. 2018-05-07.
  4. Book: Tétreault, Mary Ann. Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World. 1994. Univ of South Carolina Press. 9781570030161. 95, 97–100. en.
  5. Web site: Angola - Organization of Angolan Women. 2019-08-05. www.country-data.com.
  6. Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-Workers' Party (Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola-Partido de Trabalho). Angola: Trabalho e luta. Paris: Réalisation (Edições DIP), 1985.
  7. Book: . . Liberation in Southern Africa: The Organization of Angolan Women . 1976 . Chicago Committee for the Liberation of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea . Chicago, Illinois . https://web.archive.org/web/20201107034716/http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-47C-84-african_activist_archive-a0b1x5-a_12419.pdf . 7 November 2020 . 3208673 . live.
  8. Book: Organization of Angolan Women . Holmes . Marga . Gough . Jana . Angolan Women Building the Future . 1984 . . London, UK . 978-0-86232-262-5.
  9. News: . Os momentos marcantes da homenagem a Ruth Neto . 8 January 2024 . . 8 April 2017 . Luanda, Angola . https://web.archive.org/web/20220202194543/https://www.jornaldeangola.ao/ao/noticias/detalhes.php?id=377877 . 2 February 2022 . Portuguese . The Remarkable Moments of the Tribute to Ruth Neto . live.
  10. Web site: Luzia Inglês "Inga", SG da OMA. 2021-01-12. CLUB-K ANGOLA - Notícias Imparciais de Angola. pt-pt.
  11. Web site: Luzia Inglês. 2021-01-12. Rede Angola - Notícias independentes sobre Angola.
  12. Web site: ANGOLA: LUZIA INGLÊS VAN-DÚNEM REELEITA SECRETÁRIA-GERAL DA OMA. 2021-01-12. www.angop.ao.
  13. Web site: . Joana Tomás é a nova secretária-geral da OMA . . 9 January 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220808195645/https://www.tpa.ao/ao/noticias/joana-tomas-e-a-nova-secretaria-geral-da-oma/ . 8 August 2022 . Luanda, Angola . Portuguese . Joana Tomás Is the New Secretary General of the OMA . 26 March 2021 . live.

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