Cornélio Caley

Marciele Nazaré Coelho (Higher Institute of Social Sciences and International Relations - CIS)

Ed. by Denise Saive, Independent Scholar - Europe
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 8.2.2: Lusophone (Portuguese) and Spanish African Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Helen Rachel Cousins (Birmingham Newman University), Denise Saive (Independent Scholar - Europe), Maria Tavares (Queen's University Belfast)

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Born 8 Dec 1942

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Active in Angola

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Cornélio Caley was born on December 8, 1942 in a village in the Kingdom of Bailundo, in Huambo. He participated in the 1st government of Angola, the transitional government. Currently, he works as an historian and intellectual who studies Angolan identity and the traditions and cultures from African ancestry.

The Caley family are descendant of Ekuikui II, who was the king of the Bailundo Kingdom between 1876 and 1890 and was a great symbol of anti-colonial resistance. Yet, Caley’s parents ran away from their parental roots as teenagers to join the evangelical mission. Caley grew up in Bailundo, a Protestant village founded in 1881 by missionaries from the United States of America, Canada and Switzerland. However, the colonial authorities persecuted Protestants and eventually Caley's

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Citation: Coelho, Marciele Nazaré. "Cornélio Caley". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 July 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14757, accessed 23 November 2024.]