Roberto Francisco de Almeida

Roberto de Almeida
President of the National Assembly
In office
3 June 1996  30 September 2008
Preceded byFernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem
Succeeded byFernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos
Personal details
Born
Roberto António Victor Francisco de Almeida

(1941-02-05) 5 February 1941
Kaxikane (Cachimane), Catete, Bengo, near Luanda, Overseas Province of Angola, Portugal
Political partyMPLA

Roberto António Victor Francisco de Almeida (born 5 February 1941) is an Angolan activist and politician for the MPLA liberation movement and party, lawyer, journalist, writer and poet. He served as Deputy Foreign Minister (1976-1978), Minister of Foreign Trade (1978-1979), Minister of Planning (1979-1981), and the President of the National Assembly of Angola (1996-2008).

Besides being a politician, Almeida is also an established Portuguese-language writer, under the pseudonym Jofre Rocha.