Manuela Margarido

Maria Manuela Conceição Carvalho Margarido (1925 – 10March 2007) was a Santomean poet.

Biography Margarido was born in Roça Olímpia, Príncipe, in 1925. Margarido's father was a Portuguese Jew from Porto and her mother was of Goa Portuguese and Angolan origin. Her father, David Guedes de Carvalho, was a judge. She attended a Franciscan school at Valença and later studied at Colégio do Sagrado Coração de Maria in Lisbon.

Margarido opposed Portugal's colonization of São Tomé and Príncipe and supported the independence of the archipelago. In 1953, she protested the Batepá massacre perpetrated by Portuguese landowners. She also worked in the theatre and worked for the Portuguese magazine Estudos Ultramarinos. Her greatest work was Alto como o silêncio, published in 1957.