António Jacinto do Amaral Martins (28 September 1924 – 23 June 1991) was an Angolan poet and politician.
[1] He was raised and studied in the interior of Angola in the remote town of Golungo Alto in Cuanza Norte Province.
Jacinto was ultimately sent to the Tarrafal concentration camp in Cape Verde from 1961 to 1972.
[1] His imprisonment received international attention, and he was transferred in 1972 to Lisbon where, on parole, he worked as an accountant.
Jacinto escaped in 1973 to join the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).