Henrique Abranches

In 1975, he went to Angola, where he acquired citizenship.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[3]

He was also the Director of the National Museum of Slavery, Angola.^{[citation needed]}

• National Literature Award (1981) for Konkhava de Féti.^[4]
• National Literature Award (1990) for O Clã de Novembrino^[4]
• Luanda trophy (1997)^[4]