Femmes pionnières · 4 chapitres · FR
The Guinean Activist Struck by a Sabre
On 9 February 1955, in Tondon, Lower Guinea, guards came to arrest the activists who refused to pay tax to the canton chief, and the village women blocked their way. The chief struck their leader with his sabre: M'Balia Camara, twenty-six, eight months pregnant. A colonial court convicted him of « assault and battery », Sékou Touré's party made her its first martyr, and twenty-two years later the women's revolt against that same party began at the market that bore her name.
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