Bornito de Sousa is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on July 23, 1953 in Malanje Province, Angola.
He started as a MPLA militant in Luanda (Marçal district) at the age of 16, in 1969, influenced by the events happening in neighbouring Congo, the arrest of his father, Job Baltazar Diogo, and his maternal uncle, Dr. Luís Micolo. He was imprisoned at St Paul prison in Luanda and São Nicolau (present-day Cape Verde) by the PIDE from January 1971 to May 1974. He was released in May 1974 after the 25 April Revolution, together with his brother, General Baltazar Diogo Cristóvão. He started his career by serving as the first National Secretary of the JMPLA. In 1976, he became the political commissar of the Angolan Armed Forces.
He was the president of the Constitutional Commission of the National Assembly, that was responsible for drafting the 2010 Angolan constitution. He was also the president of the MPLA Parliamentary Group until February 2010, when he was named Minister of Territorial Administration on 2 February 2010, and was reappointed to the office on 1 October 2012, after the 2012 elections.
Bornito de Sousa Baltazar Diogo (born 23 July 1953) is an Angolan politician who is the Vice President of Angola. He was the Vice Presidential candidate for the MPLA in the 2017 Angolan general election, running alongside João Lourenço and a member of the Constituent Assembly since 2010. He was officially sworn in as Vice President on 26 September 2017.
