Chapter one opens on MA
's ambition to become a writer: her first beginnings, her move to New York, her joining the Harlem Writers Guild
, the terrifying experience of her first reading to...
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17 January 1961: Patrice Lumumba, anti-colonial leader and...
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17 January 1961
Patrice Lumumba
, anti-colonial leader and Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo for less than a year, was executed in mysterious circumstances at Katanga.
