Andrée Blouin: Africa's Forgotten Hero

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Andrée Blouin - Africa's overlooked independence heroine

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Andrée Blouin's memoir, My Country, Africa : Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria, is being re-released.

She was a key adviser to Patrice Lumumba , DR Congo's first prime minister.

She traded ideas with Ghana 's Kwame Nkrumah , Guinea 's Sékou Touré and Algeria 's Ahmed Ben Bella .

Her yearning for decolonisation was sparked by a personal tragedy in the 1940s .

In 1960 , Andrée Blouin flew alone to DR Congo with Nkrumah 's encouragement.

She joined prominent male liberation activists, such as Pierre Mulele and Antoine Gizenga .

Soon, the colonial powers and international press caught wind of her work.

She attracted even more attention when she met Lumumba , the first prime minister of DR Congo .

My Country, Africa : Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria, published by Verso Books , goes on sale on 7 January in the UK .

Blouin 's extraordinary story is being released for a second time, this time into a world that shows greater interest in the historical contributions of women.

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