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==Legacy== [[File:Memorial Antonio Agostinho Neto (19882325368).jpg|thumb|right|The Neto mausoleum and memorial in [[Luanda]]]]The [[Soviet Union]] awarded Neto the [[Lenin Peace Prize]] for 1975–76. The public university of Luanda, the [[Agostinho Neto University]], is named after him. A poem by [[Chinua Achebe]] entitled "Agostinho Neto" was written in his honour.<ref name="achebe"> {{cite web | last = Achebe | first = Chinua | title = Agostinho Neto | url = http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2002/56-achebe.html | access-date = 14 May 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121015002758/http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2002/56-achebe.html | archive-date = 15 October 2012 | url-status = dead }} </ref> An [[Agostinho Neto Airport|airport]] in [[Santo Antão, Cape Verde]], is named after him, due to the beloved work he performed there as a doctor. For the same reason, the main hospital of Cape Verde in the capital [[Platô|Praia]] is named "Hospital Agostinho Neto" (HAN). There is also a [[Morna (music)|morna]] dedicated to him. A street in [[New Belgrade]] in [[Serbia]] is named after him, the Dr Agostina Neta street.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dr+Agostina+Neta,+Beograd,+Serbia/@44.8010696,20.4042575,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x475a6f8576743d73:0x1ab34d7a142e7da8|title=Google Maps|website=Google Maps|access-date=2017-07-11}}</ref> [[File:António Agostinho Neto.jpg|thumb|A bust of Neto]] A street in Ghana (Agostinho Neto Road), which can be found in Airport City in the capital, is named after him. On the 17-19th of July 1973 was held The Congress The July Plenum in Sofia organised by the Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov, and also attended by Dr.Neto who at the time stayed in Hotel Rila. During that period he had a brief relationship with Bulgarian woman with whom he had met earlier in the same year on the 17th of February and they had a daughter [[Michelle Marinova|Mihaela]]. A [[DNA test]] performed in 2013 concluded with 95% confidence that she is Neto's daughter.<ref>''Público'' (Maia, Portugal), 29 October 2010. [http://www.publico.pt/mundo/noticia/mihaela-marinova-e-filha-de-agostinho-neto-1463442 "36 anos de uma história agitada: Mihaela Marinova é filha de Agostinho Neto"]. Retrieved 15 October 2015.</ref>
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