Angola: Antonieta Cândida Pires Jacinto
Born in 1930 in Kahala, Province of Huambo, Angola, Antonieta Jacinto was a Luso-Angolan architect who is considered the first African-born Portuguese woman to hold a diploma in architecture, and the first woman born in Angola to become an architect. She studied architecture at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal (1956), and trained with Alberto Manuel Barbosa Pereira da Cruz (1953–1956). Jacinto returned to Angola in 1956, working as an architect and urban planner until leaving the country in 1960 due to armed conflict. She died in 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal.
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