Andrée Blouin

Born in French Equatorial Africa, Andrée Blouin played a leading role in the struggles for decolonisation that shook the continent in the 1950s and 1960s. From the colonial orphanage of her childhood, she escaped an arranged marriage to become an avatar of pan-Africanism, advising heads of state from Algiers to Abidjan. Her autobiography retraces this journey. In Guinea, where Blouin...