# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/afonso-van-dunem
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:00:20.457Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/afonso-van-dunem"
name: "Afonso Van-Dunem"
slug: "afonso-van-dunem"
description: "Afonso Van-Dúnem aka M'Binda was an Angolan politician. Van-Dúnem worked as the MPLA-Workers' Party representative in Zambia and Tanzania from 1970 to 1972, as well as being elected to the Central Committee of the MPLA from 1976 onwards. He was also Minister of External Relations from 1985 to 1989 and Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1991 to 2000."
tagline: "Angolan politician, diplomat (1941-2014)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1941-09-07"
deathDate: "2014-11-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.23
  momentum:             14.28571428571428
  historical:           6.138085333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_Van-D%C3%BAnem"
    title: "Afonso Van-Dúnem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_Van-D%C3%BAnem_M'Binda"
    title: "Afonso Van-Dúnem M'Binda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_Van-D%C3%BAnem_M%E2%80%99Binda"
    title: "Afonso Van-Dúnem M’Binda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_Van-D%C3%BAnem"
    title: "Afonso Van-Dúnem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_Van-D%C3%BAnem_M'Binda"
    title: "Afonso Van-Dúnem M'Binda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD-%D0%94%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BC%2C_%D0%90%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%83"
    title: "Ван-Дунем, Афонсу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_Van-D%C3%BAnem_M'Binda"
    title: "Afonso Van-Dúnem M'Binda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4689392"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump