Introduction: The gender of decolonization -- Lumumba on women : from domesticity to political mobilization -- Lumumba and women : the personal meets the political -- Andrée Blouin : a sister among ...

Assassination and political upheaval often come to mind when students of African history think of the Congo. As a major focal point of 1960s decolonization, when indigenous people across the continent ...

“As a punishment for the crime of being born of a white father and a black mother I spent my early years in a prison for children.” So begins My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria ...