Luís Lopes de Sequeira (died 4 September 1681) was a military commander in Portuguese Angola.
Biography Of mixed Portuguese and Angolan descent, Sequeira rose to the rank of captain-general of the forces in the colony, and led the army that defeated and killed King António I of Kongo at the Battle of Mbwila on 29 October 1665.Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, Dutch and Portuguese in Western Africa (Leiden, 2011), p. 128.
Sequeira was assassinated during the Battle of Katole by a Portuguese soldier on 4 September 1681.
Sequeira is the subject of a play by José Mena Abrantes, Sequeira, Luís Lopes ou o mulato dos prodígios (first performed 1995).Luís Mitras, "Theatre in Portuguese-Speaking African Countries", in A History of Theatre in Africa, edited by Martin Banham (Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 396.
See also Angolan Wars
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