Agostinho Neto Pioneer Organization ( pt, Organização de Pioneiros Agostinho Neto, OPA) is a
pioneer movement
A pioneer movement is an organization for children operated by a communist party. Typically children enter into the organization in elementary school and continue until adolescence. The adolescents then typically join the Young Communist League ...
in
Angola
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. Founded as the Pioneers in 1975, the organization took the name of the nation's first president
Agostinho Neto
António Agostinho da Silva Neto (17 September 1922 – 10 September 1979) was an Angolan politician and poet. He served as the first president of Angola from 1975 to 1979, having led the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) i ...
at its second conference in November 1979, following Neto's death. OPA is led in its day-to-day affairs by the
MPLA Youth.
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MPLA
Pioneer movement
Youth organizations established in the 1970s
Youth wings of political parties in Angola