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On 31 March 2021, Angolan poet and scholar Arlindo Barbeitos, in full Arlindo do Carmo Pires Barbeitos, died in Luanda at the age of 80. 

Arlindo Barbeitos was born in Icolo province of Bengo, Angola, on December 24, 1940. In 1961, he was forced to flee his country for political reasons. He went to Germany, where he studied anthropology and sociology at the University of Frankfurt. In 1971, he returned home to teach at several bases of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola during Angola’s struggle for independence. Due to health problems, he moved back to Germany where, from 1973 onwards, he devoted himself to a doctorate in Ethnology, while working as an assistant at the Institute of Ethnology at the Free University of West Berlin. In 1975, he returned to his homeland, where he became a university professor at the University of Angola.

Barbeitos was a founding member of the Union of Angolan Writers.

(Sources: Wikipedia)

Selected publications

A "raça" e o racismo: algumas incidências sobre Angola / Arlindo Barbeitos.
In: Lucere : revista académica da UCAN, 2017, pages 43-64 & in: Mulemba 6 (12), 2016, pages 13-50
https://doi.org/10.4000/mulemba.603

Fiapos de Sonho / Arlindo Barbeitos. - Maianga, Luanda, Angola : Editora Das Letras, 2016

Nzoji (sonho)  / Arlindo Barbeitos. - Luanda, Angola : Editora das Letras, 2016

A construção da voz poética de Arlindo Barbeitos : as interferências/afinidades orientais / Tiago Aires.
In: Forma breve, no. 9, pages 29-37
https://doi.org/10.34624/fb.v0i9.5986

Arlindo Barbeitos : poética da concisão / Tiago Manuel Martins Aires. - Lisboa : Universidade de Lisboa, 2010.
http://hdl.handle.net/10451/1718

Angola/Portugal: des identités coloniales équivoques : historicité des représentations de soi et d'autrui / Arlindo Barbeitos. - Paris : L'Harmattan, cop. 2009

Entre os fiapos da poesia de Arlindo Barbeitos : um sonho de libertação / Regina Célia Vaz Ribeiro Gonçalves.
In: Cadernos CESPUC de pesquisa, no. 18, pages 29-37
http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/cadernoscespuc/article/view/2424

Une perspective angolaise sur le lusotropicalisme / Arlindo Barbeitos.
In: Lusotopie : enjeux contemporains dans les espaces lusophones, 1997, p. 309-326

Littérature d'Angola / Bernard Magnier, Marie-Noelle Vibert, Michel Laban. - Paris : Clef, 1993

See also Arlindo Barbeitos / Lusofonia Poética (The website includes 11 poems written by Arlindo Barbeitos).

Arlindo Barbeitos, Casa Brasil África, 2014 

Timeline of Angolan writers via DBpedia and Wikidata