Mário

Mário Pinto de Andrade (1928-1990) was a key figure in Africa's anti-colonial struggles - particularly in the Angolan liberation movement of the 1950s to 1970s. Firmly convinced that independence from colonialism was the beginning and not the end of the struggle, he spent his life fighting for African nation-building.

Billy Woodberry interweaves archive material, photographs and contemporary interviews to create a cautionary portrait of the pan-African intellectual, activist, diplomat and poet. The words and demands of Mário Pinto de Andrade and the revolutionaries of the independence movement have lost none of their urgency more than 50 years after independence.