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This booklet was published in memoriam Dr. Americo Boavida (1923-1968), from Luanda. He was part of the first generation of Angolan graduates of the Liceau de Luanda, where he was a student alongside Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) leader Agostinho Neto, who would become the first president of Angola, 1975. His determination to understand medicine that would best aid the people of his native country was ceaseless and absolute. By 1952 Boavida earned his degree in medicine from Porto and Lisbon, followed by degrees in tropical medicine and hygiene, and later studying obstetrics and gynecology in Prague in 1965. In the interim time of his studies he was on the hospital faculty in Barcelona in 1954 and 1958, and was practicing medicine in his native Luanda, 1955-1960, where a revolutionary ideology was fully formed with his joining the MPLA in 1960. His scrutinizing knowledge of medicine cultivated a will to free the Angolan people from the colonial forces of Portugal that he saw as endemic sources of disease, high infant mortality rate, poor nutrition, and ill health, rounding out an understanding of Portugal's full repression. His resistance was emboldened in the movement during the 1960s when he formulated plans to build new hospitals and bring new medicine within the country's borders by any means necessary to aid in Angola's liberation. Dr. Boavida was killed September 25,1968 stationed at an MPLA base in Moxico District in eastern Angola. This document was prepared by the Liberation Support Movement (LSM) based in Seattle, and includes a May 1968 interview with Dr. Boavida by the LSM; a tribute to Dr. Boavida published in Angola in Arms; the poem of resistance, "We Shall Not Mourn The Dead"; extensive analysis of existing and needed medical care in Angola; and at end of booklet, an info page on the LSM and it's contemporary branches. Also laid in booklet is a twice-folded 10" x 14" poster with Dr. Americo Boavida in profile framed by the last line of the published poem, "Every hour every instant we shall utter the cry the cry which was your last cry MPLA advaaaance." . Very good, some toning and sunned segments to cover wraps, else lightest wear and soiling Saddle-stapled, octavo, pictorial wraps, [i-ii] 1-27 [28-30]. Seller Inventory # 2499
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