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He was born in Luanda on January 8, 1962. He holds a PhD (2010) and a Master’s degree (2004) in African History from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon (FLUL), where he collaborated as a lecturer in the History Department. He has also taught at other Portuguese universities and at foreign universities as a visiting professor. He is currently a researcher at the University of Lisbon. He is the author of several novels and essays on the History of Angola, having won the Sagrada Esperança Prize twice: in 1998, with the novel Mazanga, and in 2017, with the essay collection Imaginários da História Cultural de Angola (Imaginaries of the Cultural History of Angola). His greatest success was  História de Angola. Da Pré-História ao Início do Século XXI (History of Angola. From Prehistory to the Beginning of the 21st Century) , the first work of its kind in 40 years of Angolan Independence, first published in 2016, with a fourth edition planned for 2024. 

Since 2018, she has coordinated the Free Course on the History of Angola at UCCLA – Union of Capital Cities of the Portuguese Language, which is the basis for the YouTube series “Fragments of the History of Angola” with Anabela Carvalho. In 2021, she created, with her son João Alberto Freire de Oliveira Pinto, also on YouTube, the successful program “Remember, Angola.” ”  Me in the Shade of the Indian Fig Tree ,” a series of short vignettes about colonial life in Luanda’s Upper City during the 1960s, her first book published in 1990, although written a few years earlier, is now being re-released by Elivulu.