Guadalupe de Ceita

João Guadalupe Viegas de Ceita (4 February 1929 – 23 October 2021) was a Santomean writer and doctor. He was one of co-founders and ideologist of the Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe (MLSTP), a project for an independent São Tomé and Príncipe.

Biography De Ceita was born on 4 February 1929, in the city of São Tomé, once a colonial capital and then a federal capital. Guadalupe de Ceita started to work at the age of seven and helped his father who was a nurse in the plantations of the island.

De Ceita finished his studies in Luanda and returned to the island where he attended Escola de Enfermagem de São Tomé (EEST); today it is the High Institute of Sciences and Health which is part of USTP (University of São Tomé and Príncipe). He chose not to finish his studies.

De Ceita later served with the Santomean youth who incorporated into the anti-colonial struggle. He joined that time with Miguel Trovoada, Leonel Mário d'Alva, Filinto Costa Alegre and António Barreto Pires dos Santos (Oné). He reunited them for sometimes, in mid-1958 in Bobô-Forro (southwest of the city, now part of Me-Zochi) and other times in Boa Morte, he concorded for the creation of a convergence of struggle with Medeiros as secretary-general. He became the coordinate-general of medicine of the country a year later.

In 1989 and 1990, he founded the Reflection (Reflexion) Group (Grupo de Reflexão, GR) which prepared the first free elections for parliament and presidency, inclusively appresented for the candidate for the president, retiring at once. He split from the GR party when he supported Trovoada's party Party for Democratic Convergence (PCD).