Ruth Lara

Ruth Lara
First Lady of Angola (interim)
In office
11 September 1979 – 20 September 1979
PresidentLúcio Lara
Preceded byMaria Eugénia Neto
Succeeded byTatiana Kukanova
Personal details
Born
Ruth Manuela Pflüger Rosenberg Lara

(1936-09-17)17 September 1936
Lisbon, Portugal
Died25 October 2000(2000-10-25) (aged 64)
Luanda, Angola
SpouseLúcio Lara
Children9
Occupation
  • educator
  • activist
  • mathematician
  • translator

Ruth Manuela Pflüger Rosenberg Lara (17 September 1936 – 25 October 2000) was a Portuguese-Angolan educator, mathematician, translator, and activist. She was the First Lady of Angola briefly, after her husband, physicist-mathematician, anti-colonial revolutionary, and politician Lúcio Lara, took office for 9 days on an interim basis after the death of Agostinho Neto.

She was a developer of one of the first literacy manuals made by Angolans, along with having been responsible, alongside her husband, for their historic documents on the process of Angolan decolonization during the Angolan War of Independence.[1]

  1. ^ Susana Garcia (27 June 2014). ""A mulher é o único receptáculo que ainda nos resta, onde vazar o nosso idealismo." – Goethe". Tribuna das Ilhas.