Roberto Francisco de Almeida


Roberto António Victor Francisco de Almeida is an Angolan activist and politician for the MPLA liberation movement and party, lawyer, journalist, writer and poet. He served as Deputy Foreign Minister, Minister of Foreign Trade, Minister of Planning, and the President of the National Assembly of Angola.
Besides being a politician, Almeida is also an established Portuguese-language writer, under the pseudonym Jofre Rocha.

Publications

Rocha's publications include:

Poetry

  • 32 pages. Poetry.
  • 78 pages. Poetry.
  • 53 pages.
  • 82 pages. Poetry.

Anthology

  • 217 pages. Poetry.

Prose

Short stories

  • 88 pages. Short stories.

Politics

Quote

The first lines of Rocha's Poem of Return are: