Léonie Abo

Léonie Abo (born 1945) is a Congolese activist and author.[1]

Abo is a Bambunda author born in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1945. Her mother died while having her so she was raised by an infertile woman named Mabiunga. She went on to have an arranged marriage, joined the maquis, and in 1968 her husband Pierre Mulele was assassinated. She has lived in Congo-Brazzaville since then. Her autobiography Une Femme du Congo has since become a film.

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  1. ↑ http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195382075.013.0034

Karen Bouwer (2010), Gender and decolonization in the Congo the legacy of Patrice Lumumba, New York City Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-230-61557-1

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