Henda Ducados

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Henda Ducados Pinto de Andrade (born July 14, 1964 in Rabat , Morocco ) is a French - Angolan women activist and development expert. Ducados has been in charge of external communications for the Angolan branch of the French oil company Total since 2010 .

Life

Youth and education

Henda Ducados Pinto de Andrade was born on July 14, 1964 in Rabat, where her father Mário Pinto de Andrade , a well-known resistance fighter against the Portuguese colonial power in Angola and elected chairman of the Angolan liberation movement MPLA since 1960, was the coordinator of the Conferência das Organizações das Colónias Portuguesas (CONCP) was active. The aim of CONCP, founded in Casablanca in 1961, was to connect and support the independence movements in the Portuguese colonies of Africa. Her mother, Sarah Maldodor , was a French filmmaker of Guadeloupian origin. In addition to Henda, the couple also had another daughter, Annouchka de Andrade.

In 1966 the family moved to Algiers ( Algeria ), where they were accepted by the Algerian independence movement FLN . The Algerian President Ben Bella provided the family with a residence in Bab El Oued , a suburb of Algiers. While Ducados' father worked for the FLN and tried to support the MPLA in Angola from Algeria, her mother produced films for the FLN army. Among other things, she worked with Gillo Pontecorvo on the film Battle of Algiers . In 1970 an incident broke out between her and a FLN army general that resulted in her being arrested and subsequently expelled. The mother then moved with her two daughters to the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis , where Ducados attended elementary and secondary school. Her father, Pinto de Andrade, stayed behind. After he fell out with the MPLA, he lived in various former Portuguese colonies in Africa - the entire family rarely saw each other, mostly at his father's place of work.

Microcredit pioneer in Angola

In the 1980s, Henda Ducados decided to pursue a career as a dancer and moved to Chicago where she trained as a dancer. After two years of training, Ducados was unable to find employment as a dancer. She then enrolled at Loyola University , where she studied economics (for a bachelor's degree) until 1992. In 1990, when her father Mário Pinto de Andrade died, she visited Angola, her father's country of birth, for the first time on the occasion of his funeral.

During her studies at Loyola University, Ducados became interested in the microcredit principle developed by Grameen Bank , which was successful in Bangladesh . Ducados decided to move to Angola in 1992, where she first learned Portuguese and met her father's family, before leading a microcredit pilot project for an NGO. Ducados received a scholarship to study the principle of microcredit on site in Bangladesh. Ducados then founded Rede Mulher (women's network) in 1998 , an exchange and networking platform for women in Angola.

At the same time, she deepened her studies in economics and development with a focus on microcredits as part of a Masters at the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex , which she graduated in 1998. Until 2001, she added a doctorate (MPhil) in “Gender and Development” at the London School of Economics and Political Science , the thesis is entitled “Women in War-Torn Societies: A Study of Households in Luanda's Peri-Urban Areas ”(in German: Women in Post-War Societies: A Study of Households in Semi-Urban Parts of Luanda ).

Change to Total

In 2001, Ducados was also offered a position as deputy head of the World Bank- funded Social Action Fund . In 2008 (or 2010) she moved to the Angolan branch of the oil company Total , whose external communications she took over and continues to manage today.

Works

  • An All Men's Show? Angolan Women's Survival in the 30-Year War , in: Women and the Aftermath, Issue 43, 2000, pages 11-22
  • with Kajsa Pehrsson, Gabriela Cohen and Paulette Lopes. Towards gender equality in Angola: a profile on gender relations . Sida, Stockholm 2000. ISBN 9158689907 .
  • with Naiole Cohen dos Santos: Beyond inequalities: women in Angola: a profile of women in Angola . 2000. ISBN 0797417508 .
  • Pinto de Andrade: Um olhar intimo . Chá de Caxinde, Luanda 2009. ISBN 9789728934859

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Inge Mariette Ruigrok: Lopes, Bertina . In: Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr (Eds.): Dictionary of African Biography . tape 2 . Oxford Press, Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5 , pp. 256 ff .
  2. ↑ Henda Ducados. Conciliation Resources, January 17, 2012, accessed April 27, 2019 .
  3. ^ Women in War-Torn Societies: A Study of Households in Luanda's Peri-Urban Areas. (PDF) London School of Economics and Political Science, 2007, accessed April 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Henda Ducados. In: Linkedin.com. Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ducados, Henda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ducados Pinto de Andrade, Henda (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Angolan women activist and development expert
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Rabat , Morocco