Politicised by her child’s death, Blouin traded ideas with Lumumba and Nkrumah in the fight for freedom. Plus, Detroit’s Black-led tech boom
. It is a remarkable autobiography that feels like a relevant reflection on the present, not a historical account. It moved me to write a sort of salute to Blouin by sharing her story. But first, the weekly roundup.. But it’s a difficult market, says our Caribbean correspondent, Natricia Duncan, with vulnerability to national disasters, barriers to legal trade and competition with richer countries such as Canada leaving farmers struggling to raise revenue.
Blouin rose from her early years in a punishing orphanage to become an adviser to the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s first prime minister, as well as a freedom fighter exchanging strategies to outwit scheming European powers with some of Africa’s legendary postcolonial leaders, including At times I became angry, not just on her behalf but at the violations of colonialism that are still subject to equivocation. Other times, her matter-of-fact retelling of what she endured brought to mind my mother, who rarely speaks of her formative years.
In a way, her mixed heritage, colonial orphanage education and liaisons with white men brought her severe pain but also access to the inner workings of the colonialist regime. She saw how in the French and Belgian Congos, European powers administered the land in their favour in a colossal extraction of wealth and resources, with the church giving moral blessing to their crimes in a “snug arrangement” of “feudal fiefdom”.She meets a third white man, a Frenchman, but this time it is true love.
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