My country, Africa : autobiography of the black pasionaria / Andrée Blouin, in collaboration with Jean MacKellar.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : Praeger Publishers, 1983.Description: 294 pages : maps, black and white illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:- 0030627591
- Blouin, Andrée, 1921-
- National liberation movements -- Africa, West
- Nationalists -- Africa, West -- Biography
- Nationalists -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Biography
- Africa, West -- Politics and government -- 1884-1960
- Africa, West -- Politics and government -- 1960-
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1908-1960
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965
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- DT 476.523 .B55 A35 1983
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BOOKS | Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks | DT 476.523 .B55 A35 1983 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | NPML20070026 |
Part one: 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 preceded 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 Josephine, my own maman --
Part two: 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 Josephine --
"At the age of three, Andreee Blouin was placed in a Catholic orphanage in the then French Congo. Like many of the "orphans" at the school, she had parents who were alive -- her father, a French businessman, and her mother, a 14-year-old Banziri tribeswoman...My Country, Africa chronicles, in her own eloquent words, the extraordinary life of Andree Blouin, a pivotal figure in Africa's struggle for independence, who became chief of protocol to Congolese prime minister Patrice Lumumba." -- from book jacket
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