The trade unionist jailed at independence

On 10 May 1960, Abbé Youlou's government arrested twenty-four activists over an alleged communist plot. Among them was one woman, Alice Badiangana, a twenty-one-year-old union delegate, held apart from the men. When Congo became independent to the sound of nearly a hundred cannon shots, she was still in prison. Three years later she was in the street when the crowd brought the abbé down.

Great figuresAfrican independencesAnticolonial resistanceMemory and redressPioneering womenRepublic of the CongoABAlice BadianganaJBJulien Boukambou