Biography
Aguinaldo Fonseca was born in Mindelo, capital of the island of São Vicente on 22 September 1922. Aguinaldo Fonseca moved to Lisbon in 1945 and published several poems in different Portuguese journals. He first collaborated on the journal '' Claridade'' in 1945 and later on the seminary '' Mundo Literário'' (''World of Literature'') (1946-1948). He was later known as "the forgotten poet", even they were published in the "Linha do Horizonte" collection in 1951, seven years later, reunited in a selection of poems in a cultural supplement "Notícias de Cabo Verde", he portrayed Michel Laban, an Algerian born French investigator who studied in Lusophony literature, that author died in Paris in December 2008. His poems redrawn in civic ardor and firmly exposed to social injustice as cited in the ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' in 1979 when it translated into Russian. One of his poem can be found on the CD '' Poesia de Cabo Verde e Sete Poemas de Sebastião da Gama'' (2007) by Afonso Dias.Poems
*''Mãe negra'' *''Canção dos rapazes da ilha''References
Further reading
*João Alves das Neves ''Poetas e Contistas africanos de expressão portuguêsa. Cabo verde-Guiné-São Tomé e Principe-Angola-Moçambique'', Brasiliense, São Paulo, 1963, p. 18 *Ferreira, Manuel ''No reino de Caliban : antologia panorâmica da poesia africana de expressão portuguesa'', vol. 1. ''Cabo Verde e Guiné-Bissau'', Seara Nova, Lisbonne, 1975, p. 158 *Janheinz Jahn, Ulla Schild and Almut Nordmann Seiler.External links