found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed April 21, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Xitu, Uanhenga; Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho; nationalist, political prisoner, fiction writer; born 29 August 1924 in Bengo, Calomboloca, Angola; did schooling with Methodist missionaries; reunited with the Movimento Popular para a Libertac̦ão de Angola (MPLA, Peoples' Liberation Movement of Angola), (1956); Provincial Commisar of Luanda; responsible for the ministry of health in the revolutionary government; member of the MPLA's Central Committee and a founding member of the Union of Angolan Writers; Angolan ambassador to Warsaw and to the Democratic Republic of Germany (1985-1992); published MeuDiscurso, Manan, Bolta com Feitiço (1974); released best-known work, the story Osdiscursos do 'Mestre' Tamoda; also published VozesnaSanzala-Kahitu, MakanaSanzala, and Ossobreviventes da Máquina Colonial Depõem (1979, 1980); later works include, O Ministro and CultosEspeciais (1990, 1997); honors include, the National Prize of Culture (1996))
