Manuel António de Sousa (10 November 1835 - 20 January 1892), also known as Gouveia, was a Portuguese merchant and military captain of Goan origin.

[citation needed] He became an established businessman in the Sena region, and had a reputation of loyalty to the governor general of Zambézia and to the Kingdom of Portugal .

[3] In 1856 he took part in the war of succession of the local kingdom of Gaza and settled in the mountains of Gorongosa, where he established the basis of an aringas system which, together with his private army, was used to defend his interests.

[4][5] Malyn Newitt[6] describes Manuel António de Sousa as "a new name ... beginning to be heard in the 1850s" who was to become "in some ways the greatest of the muzungo[7] warlords, but he did not belong to a traditional Zambesian family and cannot strictly be called Afro-Portuguese.

On 28 November 1960, a statue of Manuel António de Sousa sculpted by Martins Correia [pt] was inaugurated in the north Goa town of Mapuçá, in commemoration of the 125th anniversary of his birth.