Maguy Kabamba

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Maguy Rashidi-Kabamba (born August 3, 1960) is a writer and translator from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She was educated at the University of Lubumbashi. Her novel La Dette coloniale (The Colonial Debt) came out in 1995. The book takes a critical look at the belief many Africans have that a better life can be found in Europe. Its title refers to a philosophy that acquisition of goods and money by any means (i.e. criminality) is a legitimate refund or entitlement. The phrase has been used frequently by Congolese leaders. [1]

She currently works as a translator and also as a French I-III teacher at Dulles High School (Sugar Land, Texas).

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  1. ^ Khalid Koser, New African Diasporas, Routledge (2005), ISBN 0415309492 - p.134

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