My Country, Africa - Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria

"We who have been colonized can never forget"

List of contents

Introduction
Editor’s Note

Part I
1 From the Village to the Orphanage
2 Years of Misery, a Week of Happiness
3 Coming of Age Brings New Terrors
4 Flight to a New Life
5 Hard Days Precede First Love
6 Africa Unfolds, My Life Takes a Turn
7 My Rita and My Father
8 Grueling Enterprises and Tragedy
9 A Funeral and a Marriage
10 Europe and My Great Love
11 Siguiri, Land of Gold and Thirst
12 Little Joséphine, My Own Maman

Part II
13 Destiny Calls, My Political Work Begins
14 Healing the Breach between African Brothers
15 An Invitation to Help the Congo’s Women
16 A Perilous Campaign in the Brush
17 Ominous Developments Surround Lumumba
18 Expulsion on the Eve of Independence
19 The Protocol and the Escape
20 The Congo Catastrophe
21 Betrayal Everywhere
22 Lumumba’s Downfall and Ruin
23 My Africa, My Joséphine

Epilogue
Postface
Index

About the author

Andrée Blouin was a central figure in the struggles for decolonization that swept Africa in the 1950s and 1960s. Her activism gave her a front-row seat to the triumph and tragedy of national liberation movements across the continent.

Summary

"We who have been colonized can never forget"

Product details

• Authors: Andree Blouin, Andrée Blouin
• Assisted by: Adom Getachew (Introduction), Thomas Meaney (Introduction)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.01.2025
• EAN: 9781839768712
• ISBN: 978-1-83976-871-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Verso's Southern Questions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, Autobiography: general, Africa, Feminism & feminist theory, African History, Feminism and feminist theory, Black & Asian Studies, Relating to people of the African diasporas / heritage, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black