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The Congo’s Forgotten Hero: Paul Panda Farnana
While much of the conversation around Belgian colonialism in the Congo focuses on the violence of the Force Publique or the political turmoil of independence, Episode 220 turns its gaze to one man who tried to navigate the impossible constraints of empire from within: Paul Panda Farnana. Born into a prominent Bakongo family in Matadi in 1886, Farnana was educated by the French Congregation of the Holy Ghost Fathers and became one of the first African graduates of the Institut Catholique de Lovanium. This episode explores his unique position as an évoluée—a term denoting those assimilated into…
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