Legacy
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 honor. An airport in Santo Antão, Cape Verde, is named after him, due to the beloved work he performed there as a doctor. There is also a morna dedicated to him. A street in New Belgrade in Serbia is named after him, the Dr. Agostina Neta street.
In 1973, during one of his few unofficial visits to Bulgaria, Neto met a woman with whom he had a daughter called Mihaela Marinova. Unfortunately Neto's sudden death did no favor for his daughter who had been raised in orphanages in Bulgaria. Neto's family has not recognised the child. Despite failing to carry out a proper DNA test in 1999 and its 'Inconclusive' results . The family believe that it was enough eveidence to disclaim the child's human rights . The case is in the hands of the Ministry of Justice in Angola since April 2011 .
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)