Marcelino dos Santos, born on this day in 1929, was a Mozambican poet, revolutionary, and politician who co-founded the Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO-Mozambican Liberation Front) in 1962. Santos served as the party's deputy president from 1969 to 1977.
After Mozambique won its independence, Santos served in its government in a variety of capacities over the next several decades: as Minister of Economic Development, Chairman of the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, and, towards the end of his life, a member of the Frelimo Central Committee.
Under the pseudonyms Kalungano and Lilinho Micaia, he published his early poems in "O Brado Africano". Under his real name, the Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos (Mozambican Writers' Association) published his work "Canto do Amor Natural".
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it's kinda funny when someone says they go to therapy and then you're like "ok then why the fuck arent you changing at all"
I understand why people are tense about anti-therapy chatter because of how hard it is for most people to get mental healthcare anyways - but damn they let anyone be a therapist. Just based on the ones I've met IRL. Never been (evidently). But I can't imagine trying to find one in a minefield of quacks and dead numbers (another huge issue I've heard).