Martial Sinda

Martial Sinda was born in 1935 at Mbamou-Sinda, in what is now the Kinkala district, and did his first studies in Middle Congo before leaving in 1948 for France, where he continued his secondary studies and then entered the Sorbonne. There he defended in 1961 a thesis on Congolese messianisms, which later received a prize from the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer, and became a professor of contemporary history, a specialist in African religions. Elected senator of the Congo in 1992, he died in Paris in July 2025, aged ninety.

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• PoetryPremier chant du départMartial Sinda · 1955not translated into EnglishLiterature