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Wassis Hortense Léonie Abo , mostly just Léonie Abo , (born August 15, 1945 in Malungu , Belgian Congo ) is a Congolese resistance fighter, activist and writer. She was married to the Maoist politician Pierre Mulele .

Life

Léonie Abo was born in 1945 in Malungu in what was then the Belgian colony of Congo. Her mother died giving birth, so Abo was raised by adoptive parents. She experienced domestic violence in her early childhood. Abo attended a school in Lukamba at the age of seven and switched to the mission school in Totshi at the age of nine. She was trained as a midwife at the Belgian Foreami Foundation at an early age, together with 13 other girls, and looked after her first births at the age of 14.

In September 1959, she forcibly married Gaspar Maputo, who mistreated her several times. After Abo fell in love with another man, her husband took them to court in 1962 and Abo was sentenced to one month in prison. She found out about the work of the Parti Solidaire Africain at an early age , and Abo later joined the Simba rebellion .

In the resistance, Abo met the Maoist resistance fighter Pierre Mulele , whom she then married. The two lived together for five years, at which time Abo enjoyed great respect. After Mulele was murdered, Abo fled to Congo-Brazzaville in fear for her own life . There she worked temporarily as a nurse and as a chronicler and tried to write down Mulele's work. She gave birth to two children in Congo-Brazzaville.

Ludo Martens published a biography subscription in 2009 entitled Une Femme du Congo.

literature

• Ludo Martens: Une Femme du Congo . Aden Belgique, 2009, ISBN 978-2805900105 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Karen Bouwer: Abo, Wassis Hortense Léonie (1945) . In: Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr (Eds.): Dictionary of African Biography . Oxford Press, Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5 .