Joana Lina

Joana Lina Ramos Baptista Cândido (born 22 September 1957) is an Angolan economist and politician. She is affiliated with the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). She was a deputy for the party in the National Circle of the National Assembly from 1992 to 2022.

Biography Lina was born on 22 September 1957 in Camabatela, in the province of Cuanza Norte. She is the daughter of José Coimbra Baptista and Alexandrina Rodrigues Ramos da Cruz Baptista. From 1964 to 1968, she studied primary school at the Escola Primária de Camabatela.

During her childhood, she resided in N'dalatando. During this period, from 1969 to 1974, she began her secondary school and lycée at Liceu Adriano Moreira de Nadalatando. Before moving to Luanda, where Lina joined the MPLA in 1974, she went to work as a voluntary coordinator in literacy for the party in Cuanza Norte. In Luanda, she also became a militant with the Organization of Angolan Women (OMA). While in Luanda as well, she attended complimentary courses at Paulo Dias de Novais and Salvador Correia (now Magistério Mutu-ya-Kevela) from 1976 to 1978. With a change in the designation of the Department for Economic and Social Policies (DPES), she came to be the director in 1983, with Roberto Francisco de Almeida already as Secretary of the Central Committee of DPES, to whom she responded. Only 67 party candidates were elected to the national circuit and thus, after many years in parliament, Lina became a substitute and thus was not seated for that session of Congress.