Dulce Almada Duarte

Dulce Almada Duarte
Born	Maria Dulce de Oliveira Almada Duarte 1933 (age 83–84) Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde
Nationality	Cape Verdean
Occupation	writer

Maria Dulce de Oliveira Almada Duarte (born 1933) is a Capeverdean member and resistance fighter of the PAIGC.

Duarte was born in 1933 on the island of São Vicente. She later studied Romance languages at the University of Coimbra. She supported the idea of anticolonialism and supported the independence struggle in Cape Verde and Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau).

She returned to Cape Verde in 1959 but only for a short time. She was not allowed to travel to Portuguese Guinea. Duarte visited France and attended the University of Caën. Later she went to Algeria and Morocco and later Senegal and then Guinea and she joined the PAIGC directly.

In her struggle or the independence, she done various tasks. She even had a radio interview and co-produced a radio program in Portuguese to demorailze colonial troops in support for resistance fighters. She wrote a number of articles for Libertação (Liberation) for the PAIGC, she translated works made by Amílcar Cabral into French. She also worked with her future husband Abílio Duarte, also a fighter for the PAIGC.

After independence, she worked in different government departments including the Ministry of Culture and Education.

Later, she focused on her original discipline in Romance language and linguistics and published numerous works in Capeverdean Creole. According to her own statement, she supported the officialization of the Cape Verdean Creole.

She currently lives in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais Brazil.

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