Muepu Muamba

Muepu Muamba (* 1946 in Belgian Congo ) is a writer and journalist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who lives in Germany as a politically persecuted author.

Life

Muepu Muamba studied sociology and journalism in Belgium . In 1968 he had to leave Belgium; he was first arrested in connection with the 68 protests and then expelled. He then worked in Kinshasa as a writer and journalist, but also worked as a publisher and founded a publishing house called Les Presses Africaines . Muamba was politically active and was critical of the Mobutu regime. As a result, he had to leave the Congo in 1979 and subsequently traveled through several African countries until he found asylum in Paris as a political refugee in 1984 . Muamba has not been in the Congo since 1979, but visits other African countries and tries from his exile to help shape positive changes in his home country through his writing activities and his work in the association Dialog International . As chairman of the association, Muamba - together with other Congolese exiles and Germans - supports educational initiatives and self-help groups on site that work for peace, reconciliation and human rights.

Muepu Muamba has lived and worked in Frankfurt am Main since 2000 .

Single publications

• Sisyphus in the noise of silence . Draupardi Verlag, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-937603-66-7 .
• Et Si ... with illustrations by Claudia Lüke . 1000th edition. Edition Workshop Culture, Gladbeck 1999.
• Devoir d'ingérence . Kivouvou - Ed. Bantoues, Brazzaville, Heidelberg 1988.

Community publications

• Jochen R. Klicker, Claude Paysan, Muepu Muamba: Africa in its own right: spoken under the baobab . Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1980, ISBN 978-3-87294-161-9 .

Editing

• Moyo! The morning is breaking: Voices from the Congo . Brandes & Apsel, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86099-631-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Muepu Muamba in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Muepu Muamba in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Dialog international. Dialog International, accessed on September 26, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leona Hinz: Dissident and poet. Höchst Kreisblatt, November 22, 2013, accessed October 7, 2014 . 
2. ^ Muepu Muamba. Faust culture, accessed on September 26, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Leona Hinz: Dissident and poet. Höchst Kreisblatt, November 22, 2013, accessed on September 26, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Jonathan Fischer: The dead birds of Kinshasa. (No longer available online.) The African Times, archived from the original October 6, 2014 ; Retrieved September 26, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.