Henda Ducados
Angolan economist and sociologist
Henda Ducados Pinto de Andrade (born 14 July 1964) is a French-Angolan economist and sociologist. Ducados was an early promoter of microcredit in Angola. She has directed external communications for a division of the French oil company Total since 2010.
Life
Youth and education
Henda Ducados Pinto de Andrade was born in 1964 in the Moroccan capital city, Rabat, where her father Mário Pinto de Andrade was a well-known resistance fighter against Portuguese colonial power in Angola. He was elected chairman of the Angolan liberation movement MPLA in 1960, which he had helped found. He served as coordinator of Portuguese colonial organizations (Conferência das Organizações das Colónias Portuguesas (CONCP)). The aim of CONCP, founded in Casablanca, Morocco in 1961, was to connect and support the independence movements in the Portuguese colonies of Africa.
Her mother, Sarah Maldoror, was a French-born filmmaker with Guadeloupean parents, citizens who had migrated to France. She and De Andrade had two daughters, Annouchka and Henda de Andrade.
In 1966, the family moved to Algiers, Algeria, where they were accepted by the Algerian independence movement FLN (National Liberation Front).
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