Léonie Abo

Léonie Abo

Léonie 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 was assassinated. She has lived in Congo-Brazzaville since then. Her autobiography "Une Femme du Congo" has since become a film.

External links

* [http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/AboLeonieEng.html University of Western Australia bio]
* [http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:ZP4aow5WgU0J:www.thevoice.student.kuleuven.be/pdf/year3/Year3Issue8print.pdf+%22L%C3%A9onie+ABO%22+-wikipedia&hl=en&lr=lang_en Page nine of this student paper discusses the film version]


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