Amba Bongo
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Amba Bongo is a writer and advocate for refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...

-(Kinshasa
Kinshasa
Kinshasa is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The city is located on the Congo River....

. Bongo had been involved in the Congolese Ministry of Education, but had to flee after 1991 because she denounced its corruption. She applied for asylum status in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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 soon after fleeing the Congo.

Her novel Une femme en exil ISBN 2-7384-9705-5 came out in 2000. A second book, Cécilia, came out after that. She currently lives in London
London
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