What the media are saying

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MOST RECENT:

• Les actrices des luttes anticoloniales: Andrée Blouin, influente conseillère et mobilisatrice de réseaux féminins  - Reportage Afrique Podcast with RFI (August 13, 2026)

• Qui était Andrée Blouin? - Brut Afrique (August 10, 2026)

 

2026 TOUR: 

• MARSEILLE: 19–20 May – Book presentation at Transit Librairie; interview with RFI; screening of Soundtrack to a Coup d'État.

• BRUSSELS: 21 May – Book presentation at Où sont les Lions with Dulia Lengema.

• PARIS: 22–26 May – Book presentation at Un livre et une tasse de thé; Brut magazine recording; Soundtrack to a Coup d'État screening at Cinéma L'Arlequin; podcast and conference at Gaîté Lyrique.

• LONDON: 10–21 June – Interviews with RFI, Mansa, Afrique 21, and Dorell, Cinque Brath & Nduku Mulumba.

• TURIN: 1 July – Best International Guest Award acceptance at Radio Blackout.

• NETHERLANDS: 2 July – Interview with Anneleen Ophoff for Apache magazine.

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HONOURABLE MENTIONS:

• Committed to Freedom - Defining Moments in the Life of an Activist - Franklin Nelson for Times Literary Supplement (May 15, 2026)

• Andrée Blouin: Overlooked Obituary for Black History Month - The New York Times (February 14, 2020)

• BBC Feature Article on Andrée Blouin (Gahuza)  - Wedaeli Chibelushi (January 10, 2025)

• BBC Feature Article on Andrée Blouin (in English) - Wedaeli Chibelushi (January 7, 2025)

• "I'm With You": Andrée Blouin, the Unsung Heroine of African Independence - The Guardian (January 7, 2025)

• Rediscovering the Legacy of Andrée Blouin: Africa's Unsung Independence Advocate - The Global Herald (January 6, 2025)

• Andree Blouin’s autobiography is a brave tale of a woman who fought for freedom - Rosita Sweetman, The Irish Independent (February 14, 2025)

• Lumumba's Right Hand Woman by Roger McKenzie - Morning Star (February 6, 2025)

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THE ANDRÉE BLOUIN BOOK PRIZE:

• The Andrée Blouin Prize - by Efemia Chela, Inkani Books, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

• Africa’s newest book prize is named after Andreé Blouin: Who was she? - Tinashé Mushakavanhu for The Eastleigh Voice (March 2, 2025)

• Africa’s newest book prize is named after Andreé Blouin: Who was she? - Tinashé Mushakavanhu for All Africa (March 2, 2025)

• Africa’s newest book prize is named after Andreé Blouin: who was she? - Charl Blignaut for The Conversation (February 28, 2025)

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NEWS & MEDIA COVERAGE:​​​​​

• Les actrices des luttes anticoloniales: Andrée Blouin, influente conseillère et mobilisatrice de réseaux féminins  - Reportage Afrique Podcast with RFI (August 13, 2026)

• Committed to Freedom - Defining Moments in the Life of an Activist - Franklin Nelson for Times Literary Supplement (May 15, 2026)

• African Liberation Day Must Advance the Struggle Against Neo-Colonialism, Zionism and Imperialist-Militarism - Abayomi Azikiwe for News Ghana (May 24, 2026)

• My Country: Africa – review - Red Pepper (March 24, 2026)

• Andrée Blouin Is Our Kind of Pan-African Revolutionary: The Fourteenth Newsletter - Vijay Prashad for The Tricontinental Institute (April 3, 2025)

• The Best Books of 2025 (So Far) - Vulture Editors (April 1, 2025)

• Andrée Blouin Was Africa’s Forgotten Power Broker - Ernest Harsch for Jacobin 

• Across a Continent, Andrée Blouin’s revolutionary lives - Bill Fletcher Jr for The Nation (March 12, 2025)

• Andrée Blouin, forgotten icon of Africa’s anti‑colonial movement - Olivia Snaije for The Africa Report (March 7, 2025)

• South African Press Inkani Books Launches Andrée Blouin Prize for Leftist Manuscripts - Jagravi Dave for Brittle Paper (March 5, 2025)

• Africa’s newest book prize is named after Andreé Blouin: Who was she? - By The Conversation (March 2, 2025) 

• French street artist Shuck One pays tribute to Black history at Pompidou Center in Paris - Sylvie Corbet and Nicolas Garriga, Associated Press (February 21, 2025)

• Andree Blouin’s autobiography is a brave tale of a woman who fought for freedom - Rosita Sweetman, The Irish Independent (February 14, 2025)

• Andrée Blouin: Overlooked Obituary for Black History Month - The New York Times (February 14, 2020)

• How the West Destroyed Congo’s Hopes for Independence - The Jacobin (February 12, 2025)

• Lumumba's Right Hand Woman by Roger McKenzie - Morning Star (February 6, 2025)

• An Intense History of Colonialism - The Irish Times (January 25, 2025)

• 2025 Memoirs to Read With Your Book Club - Erica Ezeifedi (Jan 21, 2025)

• Foreign Policy Africa, Nosmot Gbadamosi (January 15, 2025)

• Andrée Blouin: The woman who exchanged revolutionary ideas with Nkrumah, Sékou Touré and others - Ghana Web (January 11, 2025)

• "I'm With You": Andrée Blouin, the Unsung Heroine of African Independence - The Guardian (January 7, 2025)

• BBC Feature Article on Andrée Blouin (Gahuza)  - Wedaeli Chibelushi (January 10, 2025)

• BBC Feature Article on Andrée Blouin (in English) - Wedaeli Chibelushi (January 7, 2025)

• Rediscovering the Legacy of Andrée Blouin: Africa's Unsung Independence Advocate - The Global Herald (January 6, 2025)

• The Red, White, and Blue Notes - Truthdig (January 24, 2024)

• Andrée Blouin: "I Knew I Had to Act" - Mediapart (August 14, 2023)

• Hailing a Great Feminist and African Nationalist - New Frame (December 16, 2020)

• Remembering the Congolese Women Who Fought for Independence - Al Jazeera (June 30, 2020)

• Who Was the Woman Behind Lumumba? - Africa Is a Country (January 2020)

• Celebration of New Congo-U.S. Partnership - Lokole ya Congo Blog (July 10, 2019)

• Les Malheurs d’une Pasionaria - Jeune Afrique (April 5, 2005)

• Reborn Again: The memoir of anti-colonial revolutionary Andrée Blouin - Hannah Black for Book Forum (Spring 2025)

• Classic Book Review: ‘My Country, Africa – Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria’ by Andrée Blouin - Tola Ositelu for Afropean (February 26, 2025)

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INTERVIEW COVERAGE:​

• Qui était Andrée Blouin? - Brut Afrique (August 10, 2026)

• 'My Country, Africa': interview with Eve Blouin - Jr Valrey, Block Report Radio (February 24 , 2025)

• Interview with Eve Blouin hosted by Assumpta Oturu - Spotlight Africa, Los Angeles, KPFK Radio (February 22, 2025)

• The Women Behind Lumumba by Jared Ball (February 3, 2025)

• The World Interview by Joshua Coe (January 28, 2025)

• BBC interview with Wedaeli Chibelushi (December 17, 2025)

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BOOK CRITICS:

• Babelio, France: LINK

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ACADEMIC & RESEARCH RESOURCES:

• Black Passionaria: Gucci Equilibrium Archive (January 2021)

• Andrée Blouin: Featured on Global Read Her Blog (November 3, 2013)

• Apostle for All Africa - Worldsworth Blog (June 9, 2013)

• Andrée Blouin on Wikipedia (Date Unavailable)

• Ominous Developments Surround Lumumba - Verso Books Blog (Date Unavailable)

• A Chapter on Andrée Blouin from Scholarly Work - SpringerLink (Date Unavailable)

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BOOKS & CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS:

• My Country, Africa - Verso Books (January, 2025)

• Public Figure 2 by Goshka Macuga at Middelheim Museum (March 18, 2022)

• Book Review: Andrée Blouin Biography - Publishers Weekly (Date Unavailable)

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AFFILIATIONS:

 

PanAfrican School Andrée Blouin in Kinshasa, DRC:

• PanAfrican School Facebook Post (March 2021)

• Announcement of the Fourth Leadership Training Cohort (March 21, 2019)

• Leadership Training for Pro-Democracy Activists (June 25, 2018)

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Andrée Blouin's Cultural Center in Kinshasa, DRC:

• Celebration of New Congo-U.S. Partnership - Lokole ya Congo Blog (July 10, 2019)

• Leadership Training Overview (25 June, 2018)

• Andrée Blouin Cultural Center Facebook Page Posts (Date Unavailable)