Island of Mozambique, 17 April 1847 - Cabaceira?, 1 January 1911. Campos de Oliveira was a Mozambican-Goan poet and journalist, being the child of Goans established in Mozambique. He has studied in Goa, where he published his first writings. He later became a public servant in Mozambique, having achieved to head the Postal services. He was a pionner of the literary press in Mozambique, with the foundation of Revista Africana, and collaborated with numerous periodicals, such as the Ilustração Goana and O Ultramar (Goa), the Ta-ssi-yang-kuo (Macau), the Revista Brasil-Portugal (Lisbon), the O Progresso, Jornal de Moçambique and Noticiário de Moçambique (Mozambique), among others.
References: Revista Africana; "Campos de Oliveira" Wikipedia; Sopa, António, "Campos Oliveira: jornalista e escritor moçambicano (1854–1911)" Arquivo: Boletim do Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique, nº 4 (1988), p. 105–148; Rocha, Ilídio, A imprensa de Moçambique: história e catálogo (1854-1975). Lisboa: Livros do Brasil, 2000, p. 364; Costa, Aleixo Manuel da, Dicionário de Literatura Goesa. Instituto Cultural de Macau: Fundação Oriente, 1997, v. 3, p. 6; Leite, Ana Mafalda & Passos, Joana "Literature in Transit between Goa and Mozambique: Campos Oliveira as a Pioneering Figure" Portuguese Studies vol. 37 no. 2 (2021), p. 193–209.
Form and biographic note: Sandra Ataíde Lobo