Mendes de Carvalho | |
Office1: | Provincial Commissioner of Luanda |
Term Start1: | 1979 |
Term End1: | 1980 |
Predecessor1: | Afonso Van-Dunem Mbinda |
Successor1: | Francisco Romão |
Office2: | Minister of Health |
Term Start2: | 1980 |
Term End2: | 1983 |
Predecessor2: | Domingos Coelho da Cruz |
Successor2: | António José Ferreira Neto |
Birth Date: | 29 August 1924 |
Birth Place: | Calomboloca, Icolo e Bengo, Angola |
Death Place: | Luanda, Angola |
Nationality: | Angolan |
Party: | MPLA |
Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho (August 29, 1924 – February 13, 2014), known by the pseudonym Uanhenga Xitu, was an Angolan writer and nationalist.[1] [2] Xitu was born in Calomboloca, and in 2009 was the oldest member of the parliament for the MPLA party.[3]