Roberto Francisco de Almeida explained
Roberto António Victor Francisco de Almeida (born 5 February 1941) is an Angolan activist and politician for the MPLA liberation movement and party, lawyer, journalist, writer and poet. He served as Deputy Foreign Minister (1976-1978), Minister of Foreign Trade (1978-1979), Minister of Planning (1979-1981), and the President of the National Assembly of Angola (1996-2008).[2] [3]
Besides being a politician, Almeida is also an established Portuguese-language writer, under the pseudonym Jofre Rocha.[4]
Publications
Rocha's publications include:[5] [6]
Poetry
- Book: Rocha, Jofre . Tempo de cicio . Time cycle . Capricórnio . 1973 . Cadernos Capricórnio, 6 . portuguese. 32 pages. Poetry.
- Book: Rocha, Jofre . Assim se fez madrugada : canções do povo e da revolução . This is how dawn broke: songs of the people and the revolution . Edições 70 (Ed. 70) . Lisboa . 1977 . 463073408 . portuguese . Colecção Autores angolanos, 9. 78 pages. Poetry.
- Book: Rocha, Jofre . Crónicas de Ontem e de sempre . Chronicles of yesterday and forever . UEA - União dos Escritores Angolanos . Luanda . 1985 . 89191431 . 21077361 . Cadernos Lavra & Oficina, 47 . portuguese. 53 pages.
- Book: Rocha, Jofre . 60 canções de amor e luta : põesia . 60 songs of love and struggle : poetry . União dos escritores angolanos . Luanda . 1988 . 499453133 . Contemporâneos . portuguese. 82 pages. Poetry.
Anthology
- Book: Rocha, Jofre . Akiz . Neto . Contingência : afectos, revoltas e ternura : poesia de Jofre Rocha, antologia . Contingency : affections, revolts and tenderness : poetry by Jofre Rocha, anthology . Ministério da Cultura, Comissão Organizadora do II Festival Nacional de Cultura ; Mercado das Letras . Luanda, Angola; Lisboa . 2014 . 1352000355 . portuguese. 217 pages. Poetry.
Prose
Short stories
- Book: Rocha, Jofre . Estórias do Musseque . Stories from the Musseque (slum). Edições 70 / Ática . Lisboa / São Paulo . 1977 . 863325218 . portuguese . Colecção Autores angolanos, 3. 88 pages. Short stories.
Politics
- Book: Rocha, Jofre . 10º aniversário da Assembleia Nacional . 10th anniversary of the National Assembly, 1992-2002 . Assembléia Nacional . Luanda . 2002 . 940755050 . portuguese . 116 pages. Prose.
- Book: Rocha, Jofre . Peço a palavra : peças de oratória parlamentar . I request the floor: parliamentary oratory pieces . Kilombelombe . Luanda . 2011 . 9789898368157 . 820553468 . Discursos, entrevistas & communicações, no. 1 . portuguese. 460 pages. Prose.
Quote
The first lines of Rocha's Poem of Return are:
Notes and References
- Book: Ulli . Beier . Gerald . Moore . The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry . The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry . . London . 9780140424720 . 466152546 . 2007 . 4th . . 301. 448 pages. First edition 1963.
- Web site: Perfil - Assembleia Nacional . www.parlamento.ao . portuguese.
- Web site: Jofre Rocha. Biografia . portaldaliteratura.com . pt . 18 November 2024 . 2024 . Portal da Literatura. Cofomark, Carnaxide, Portugal.
- Web site: Biografia . tirodeletra.com.br . 3 Mar 2019 . pt . Nasceu em 05/02/1941, em Caxicane, Angola. Advogado, Cientista social, contista e poeta, participou, ativamente, da guerrilha para libertação do seu país. . He was born on 05/02/1941 in Caxicane, Angola. Lawyer, social scientist, short story writer and poet, he took an active part in the guerrilla war to liberate his country..
- Web site: Find items in libraries near you . 2024 . OCLC, Inc. . 18 November 2024 . search.worldcat.org. Search for "Jofre Rocha".
- Web site: Pesquisa bibliográfica . Bibliographical search . memoria-africa.ua.pt . O Portal das Memórias de África e do Oriente (The Portal of Memories of Africa and the Orient). Universidade de Aveiro. Fundação Portugal-Africa. . . pt . 18 November 2024. Search for "Rocha, Jofre".
