Mweya Tol'ande

Élisabeth Françoise Mweya Tol'ande was born on 7 July 1947 in Kinshasa, to a father who was a mechanic and a mother who sold meals at the port. She entered a convent in 1965 and left it, obtained her state diploma in 1969, then a degree in journalism in 1984. Awarded prizes for her poetry in 1967 and 1972, she wrote for several weeklies, produced a women's magazine and taught at the Institute of Information Sciences and Techniques, before working for women's rights and police reform. She was still publishing in 2023.

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• NarrativeAhata, suivi du Récit de la DamnéeMweya Tol'ande · 1976not translated into EnglishLiterature