Andrée Blouin

Andrée Blouin (December 16, 1921 – 1986) was an activist and writer from the Central African Republic.[1]

Biography

The daughter of Josephine Wouassimba, a Banziri woman, and Pierre Gerbillat, a French businessman, she was born in Bessou, a village in Oubangui-Chari (later the Central African Republic). She was placed in an orphanage for girls of mixed race, only reconnecting with her parents as an adult. She ran away at the age of 17.

In the 1950s, she went to Guinea, where she joined Sékou Touré. She returned to Central Africa and mobilized women for the Parti Solidaire Africain. She became chief of protocol in Patrice Lumumba's government.[2] She was expelled from the Congo just before Lumumba was executed. She continued to work for social equality and economic justice in various African countries.[3]

Her autobiography My Country, Africa was published in English in 1983.[4]

Further reading

  • My Country, Africa. Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria, autobiography with Jean MacKellar (1983)
  • Bouwer Karen, "Andrée Blouin: A Sister among Brothers in Struggle", in Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. 71–99. ISBN 0230316298.

References

  1. ↑ "Andrée Blouin". Francophone African Women Writers. University of Western Australia.
  2. ↑ Bouwer, Karen (2010). Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba. pp. 82–83. ISBN 0230316298.
  3. ↑ Sheldon, Kathleen (2005). Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa. pp. 34–35. ISBN 0810865475.
  4. ↑ "Keeping track of women writing – African penwomen of the colonial era". Reading Women Writers and African Literatures.


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