Maria Dulce de Oliveira Almada Duarte (1933–2019) was a Cape Verdean linguist who was a member and resistance fighter of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde.
She wrote a number of articles for Libertação (Liberation) for the PAIGC, she translated works made by Amílcar Cabral into French.
[2] She also worked with her future husband Abílio Duarte, also a fighter for the PAIGC.
[3] After independence, she worked in different government departments including the Ministry of Culture and Education.
Later, she focused on her original discipline in Romance language and linguistics and published numerous works in Cape Verdean Creole.