Holden Roberto
Holden Roberto was born in M'banza-Kongo, Zaire Province, Angola on January 12th, 1923 and is the Politician. At the age of 84, Holden Roberto biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Holden Álvaro Roberto (January 12, 1923 – August 2, 2007) founded and led the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) from 1962 to 1999.
His memoirs are unfinished.
Early life
Roberto, son of Garcia Diasiwa Roberto and Joana Lala Nekaka, and a descendant of the Royal Family of the Kongo Kingdom, was born in São Salvador in the far north of Angola. His family moved to Léopoldville, in the Belgian Congo, in 1925. In 1940 he graduated from a Baptist mission school. He worked for the Belgian Finance Ministry in Léopoldville, Costermansville, and Stanleyville for eight years. In 1949, Roberto moved back to Léopoldville, where he joined his uncle in playing for the local "Nomads" football side. Roberto went on to play for Daring Club Motema Pembe, alongside the later Congolese Prime Minister, Cyrille Adoula. In 1951 he visited Angola and witnessed Portuguese officials abusing an old man, inspiring him to begin his political career.
Political career
On July 14, 1954, Roberto and Sydney Manuel Barros Nekaka formed the Union of Peoples of Northern Angola (UPNA), which later renamed the Union of Peoples of Angola (UPNA). Roberto, then President of Angola, represented Angola in the All-African Peoples Congress of Ghana, which he secretly attended in Accra, Ghana, in December 1958. Patrice Lumumba, the future Prime Minister of the Congo, Kenneth Kaunda, the future President of Zambia, and Kenyan nationalist Tom Mboya were among the visitors. He obtained a Guinean passport and visited the United Nations. UNITA's future, Jonas Savimbi, joined the United States in February 1961 at the behest of Mboya and Kenyan Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta. Later this year, Roberto named Savimbi Secretary-General of the United States.
In the 1950s, the United States National Security Council began supplying Roberto with $6,000 a year, up to $10,000 a year for intelligence-gathering.