Maurício Francisco Caetano

Mafrano (Maurício Francisco Caetano 1916–1982) Son of Francisco João Caetano, a tailor from Cambambe, and Mariana José Marcolino, he was born, like his mother, in Dondo, where he received his primary education. He later continued his studies at the Luanda Seminary, where he studied Philosophy and Theology. He began his career as an administrative trainee, combining his professional activity with teaching and promoting the cultural value of Angolan social anthropology. He joined the Treasury and Accounting Services during the colonial era, which later came under the tutelage of the Ministry of Finance after Angola's independence in November 1975. There, he assumed the position of director, a role he held until his death in 1982.
As a writer, he contributed to several newspapers and publications — most notably The Apostolate, Angola Magazine, The Angolanand the Tribune of the Muceques — using the pseudonyms MAFRANO and ANATECO.
As a speaker, he could be emphatic and almost theatrical, in the opinion of some of his contemporaries.
He was a professor of Portuguese Language and Philosophy at Colégio 28 de Maio, Instituto Makarenko, Liceu Ngola Kiluanje, Escola 1 de Maio, and Instituto Pio XII (now ICRA — Instituto de Ciências Religiosas de Angola). One of his students became a prominent figure in Angolan society for being the first black Angolan to be ordained a bishop: Dom Eduardo André Muaca.
It was INALD, through a collection called, The Letter, who, in early 1986, recovered a beautiful short story by this writer for the first issue of this collection, The Boy Louis, Brother of John Cassabalo.