Henrique (or Enrique) Abranches (September 29, 1932 – August 8, 2004[1]) was an Angolan writer and anthropologist born in Lisbon, Portugal.

[citation needed] With Pepetela, he founded in Algiers the Angolan Studies Center, where they worked at writing a handbook of the history of Angola.

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.

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