# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zinha-vaz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:01:21.626Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zinha-vaz"
name: "Zinha Vaz"
slug: "zinha-vaz"
description: "Francisca Maria Monteira e Silva Vaz , better known as Zinha Vaz, is a Bissau-Guinean women's rights activist and politician. She has been a member of the National People's Assembly for several terms for the Resistance of Guinea-Bissau-Bafatá Movement, as well as a presidential advisor. In 1999 she served for a brief time as mayor of the capital city Bissau. She was jailed for political reasons for three years during the 1970s and in 2003 again for several days. Recently she was ambassador to Gambia."
tagline: "Bissau-Guinean women's rights activist and politician"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-10-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.15
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.001692
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinha_Vaz"
    title: "Zinha Vaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinha_Vaz"
    title: "Zinha Vaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinha_Vaz"
    title: "Zinha Vaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinha_Vaz"
    title: "Zinha Vaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinha_Vaz"
    title: "Zinha Vaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinha_Vaz"
    title: "Zinha Vaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinha_Vaz"
    title: "Zinha Vaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinha_Vaz"
    title: "Zinha Vaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17022960"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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