Henrique Abranches


Henrique 'Abranches' was an Angolan writer and anthropologist born in Lisbon, Portugal.

Career

In 1975, he went to Angola, where he acquired citizenship.
With Pepetela, he founded in Algiers the Angolan Studies Center, where they worked on writing a handbook about the history of Angola. After independence, he was committed to cultural intervention. He was a teacher in higher education, besides being a poet, fiction writer, essayist and playwright.
He was also the Director of the National Museum of Slavery, Angola.

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