Jose Bacao Leal was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1942 and died in Mozambique during the colonial war with 23 years old. A promising writer and thinker, he became a symbol of a youth that could not rise, victim of a country that put in cause its own future in a meaningless war. All the people who were close to him were touched by his fascinating personality and his vanguardist free spirit.
