Andrée Blouin, Africa’s little-known independence heroine

In the 1950s and 60s, the late Andrée Blouin, threw herself into the fight for a free Africa, mobilising the Democratic Republic of Congo’s women against colonialism and rising to become a key adviser to Patrice Lumumba, DR Congo’s first prime minister and a revered independence hero. “I know that you can die twice. First … Continue reading Andrée Blouin, Africa’s little-known independence heroine