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MRIO PINTO DE ANDRADE, born in Angola in 1928, was a pioneering and central figure of modern Angolan nationalism and the anticolonial struggle during the 1950s and 1960s. He went on to found the MPLA (Movimento Popular de Libertao de Angola), which has been in power in Angola since 1975, and died in exile in London in 1990. JEAN-MICHEL MABEKO-TALI is professor of history at Howard University and author of Guerrilhas e lutas sociais: O MPLA perante si prprio, 1960-1977. MARIO PEREIRA is executive editor of Tagus Press in the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.