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Namibia: The remarkable life of Andrée Blouin– Africa’s overlooked independence heroine – News

Namibia: The remarkable life of Andrée Blouin– Africa’s overlooked independence heroine – News

Africa Links 24 with Wedaeli Chibelushi
Published on 2025-01-10 07:14:41

“I KNOW that you can die twice. First comes physical death… to be forgotten is a second death,” notes screenwriter Eve Blouin, in an epilogue at the end of her mother’s autobiography.

Eve understands this sentiment more than most.

In the 1950s and 60s, her mother, the late Andrée Blouin, threw herself into the fight for a free Africa, mobilising the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) women against colonialism and rising to become a key adviser to Patrice Lumumba, DRC’s…

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