[1] Margarido regularly visited Casa dos Estudantes do Império ('House of Students of the Empire'), a facility that became the center of liberation movements in the Portuguese colonies of Africa.
There, she met Alfredo Margarido, Edmundo Bettencourt, Cândido da Costa Pinto, and Manuel de Castro.
[citation needed] After the Carnation Revolution in Portugal in April 1974 where the Estado Novo fascist regime ended, she returned to São Tomé and Príncipe where she was later ambassador of her country in Brussels and took part in different international organizations.
[1] In Lisbon, where she later lived, Margarido took part in the dissemination of her country's culture, and was considered by Alda Espírito Santo, Caetano da Costa Alegre, and Francisco José Tenreiro to be one of the greatest names in Santomean poetry.
[citation needed] In other works, she was consecutive council member of the Atalaia magazine, of the Interdisciplinary Science, Technology and Society Centre (Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade) at the University of Lisbon.