Henda Ducados, daughter of filmmaker Sarah Maldoror from Guadeloupe and Angolan writer, poet and fighter against Portuguese colonial rule, Mário de Andrade, spent her childhood with her sister Annouchka de Andrade between Morocco, Algeria and France.

She is a Franco-Angolan economist and sociologist who currently works between Lisbon and Angola. Together with her sister, she founded the “Association of Friends of Sarah Maldoror and Mário de Andrade” in 2020, with the aim of contributing to the development, preservation and promotion of the political and cultural heritage of Sarah Maldoror and Mário de Andrade, two free thinkers who sought emancipation through culture.