Antoine-Roger Bolamba

Antoine-Roger Bolamba was born in 1913 in Boma, in the Belgian Congo, into a Mongo family. A pupil of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, he was for fourteen years secretary at Queen Elisabeth's medical fund, then from 1945 to 1959 directed La Voix du Congolais, a journal for the “évolués” published by the colonial government, of which he was the sole editor-in-chief. Secretary of State for Information in the Lumumba government in 1960, dismissed in September, he was Minister of Information from 1963 to 1964. He died in Kinshasa in 2002.

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• NarrativeLes Aventures de Ngoy, héros légendaire des BangalaAntoine-Roger Bolamba · 1940not translated into EnglishLiterature