Henrique Abranches or Enrique Abranches (born September 29, 1932; died August 8, 2004[1]) was an Angolan writer and anthropologist born in Lisbon, Portugal.[2] He came to Angola in 1947 that acquired citizenship. Pepetela founded in Algiers with the Angolan Studies Center where they worked in the writing of a handbook of history of Angola. After independence, committed to cultural intervention. Exercise of executive positions (Director of Museums in Angola). He was a teacher in higher education, besides being a poet and fiction writer, essayist and playwright[3]. He was also the Director of The National Museum of Slavery, Angola.