Angola National Anthem
Angola Avante
Angola Forward
1975
1975
Manuel Rui Alves Monteiro
Rui Alberto Vieira Dias Mingas
🔥 Revolution 🗽 Independence 🤝 Unity 🕊 Freedom ☮ Peace |
Key Facts
- 1. The anthem is sung in Portuguese, which Angola's constitution names as the country's official language. The 2010 constitution also confirms the anthem adopted at independence and prints its full text in an annex.
- 2. Rui Alberto Vieira Dias Mingas, who composed the music, was a singer and songwriter who later served as Angola's sports minister and as its ambassador to Portugal.
- 3. The anthem was written in haste on the eve of independence: lyricist Manuel Rui recalled that Mingas arrived with the opening chords already worked out and that 'in ten minutes an anthem was made'.
Angola National Anthem Lyrics
Ó Pátria, nunca mais esqueceremos
Os heróis do quatro de Fevereiro.
Ó Pátria, nós saudamos os teus filhos
Tombados pela nossa Independência.
Honramos o passado e a nossa História,
Construindo no Trabalho o Homem novo,
Honramos o passado e a nossa História,
Construindo no Trabalho o Homem novo.
[Coro]
Angola, avante!
Revolução, pelo Poder Popular!
Pátria Unida, Liberdade,
Um só povo, uma só Nação!
Levantemos nossas vozes libertadas
Para glória dos povos africanos.
Marchemos, combatentes angolanos,
Solidários com os povos oprimidos.
Orgulhosos lutaremos Pela Paz
Com as forças progressistas do mundo.
Orgulhosos lutaremos Pela Paz
Com as forças progressistas do mundo.
[Coro]
Angola, avante!
Revolução, pelo Poder Popular!
Pátria Unida, Liberdade,
Um só povo, uma só Nação!
Translations are non-official and intended to convey meaning, not replace originals
Analysis
EditorialAdopted at independence on 11 November 1975, the anthem honours 'the heroes of the Fourth of February', a reference to the armed uprising of 4 February 1961, which began Angola's war of independence from Portugal. Its lyrics refer to key events in the history of the MPLA, the movement that has governed Angola since independence and ran it as a one-party state until 1992, and call for 'revolution through the power of the people'.
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Sources & References
- Angola Avante . en.wikipedia.org
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