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Fausto Duarte

Cabo Verdean author and government official
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Fausto Castilho Duarte
Born:
1903, Praia, Saõ Tiago, Cape Verde Islands
Died:
1953, Portugal (aged 50)
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Fausto Duarte (born 1903, Praia, Saõ Tiago, Cape Verde Islands—died 1953, Portugal) was a government official and writer whose early work in Portuguese established him as one of the earliest African novelists. Duarte was educated under the official program of assimilaçao (“assimilation”), which after 1921 had social and political equality for Africans in the Portuguese sphere of influence as a goal. He was then sent to Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau) as a government administrator. Duarte’s first novel, Auá: Novela Negra (1934; “Auá: Black Novel”), is set among the Fulani peoples of Guinea. He wrote three other novels—O Negro sem Alma ...(100 of 138 words)

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