Henda Ducados Pinto de Andrade (born 14 July 1964 in Rabat, Morocco) is a French-Angolan economist and sociologist.
The aim of CONCP, founded in Casablanca, Morocco in 1961, was to connect and support the independence movements in the Portuguese colonies of Africa.
[2][3] In 1966, the family moved to Algiers, Algeria, where they were accepted by the Algerian independence movement FLN (National Liberation Front).
The Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella provided the family with a residence in Bab El Oued, a suburb of Algiers.
[1] During her studies at Loyola University, Ducados became interested in the principles of microcredit developed by Grameen Bank,[1] which had become successful in Bangladesh.
Her final paper was entitled "Women in War-Torn Societies: A Study of Households in Luanda's Peri-Urban Areas.