# Amba Bongo

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**Amba Bongo** (born April 21, 1962) is a [writer](/source/Writer) and advocate for [refugees](/source/Refugee) from the [Democratic Republic of the Congo](/source/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo)-[Kinshasa](/source/Kinshasa) where she studied English and [African Culture](/source/Culture_of_Africa) at [Gombe](/source/Gombe,_Kinshasa)'s *l'Institut Supérieur Pédagogique.* She also studied [Psychology](/source/Psychology) at the University of Warocqué in [Mons, Belgium](/source/Mons,_Belgium)*.*[1][2]

Since 1994 she has worked within the [British legal system](/source/Law_of_the_United_Kingdom) and work as project director to *Active Women* a refugee community organisation supporting vulnerable [French speaking African](/source/African_French) women refugees and [asylum seekers](/source/Asylum_seeker) seeking to settle in the [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom). Amba writes novels, poems and short stories and she currently lives in [London](/source/London).[1][2]

Her first novel *Une femme en exil* (ISBN 2-7384-9705-5) was published in 2000 by [L’Harmattan](/source/L'Harmattan), [Paris](/source/Paris).[2] The story is about Anna, who finds a job as an [academic adviser](/source/Academic_advisor) at the [University of Kinshasa](/source/University_of_Kinshasa), but she is taken away by members of the state security service under who she endures [suffering](/source/Suffering), [humiliation](/source/Humiliation) and [torture](/source/Torture) before she is ultimately [exiled](/source/Exile) in London.[1]

## External links

- [University of West Australia site](https://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/BongoAmbaEng.html)
- [Profile on page 7](https://web.archive.org/web/20061008204003/http://www.education-action.org/pdfs/inFocus_Dec05.pdf)

## References

1. ["Amba Bongo"](https://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/BongoAmbaEng.html). *aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au*. Retrieved 2024-03-25.

1. ["Amba Bongo | exiled"](https://www.exiledwriters.co.uk/portfolio-items/amba-bongo/). *www.exiledwriters.co.uk*. Retrieved 2024-03-25.

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