[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":101},["ShallowReactive",2],{"hub-region-central-africa":3},[4,17,30,42,55,68,78,88],{"name":5,"slug":6,"image":7,"country":8,"born":9,"died":10,"era":11,"summary":12,"causes":13},"Andrée Blouin","andree-blouin","/women/andree-blouin.jpg","Central African Republic",1921,1986,"Independence","A Pan-African organizer from the Central African Republic who turned the death of her small son, denied malaria medicine reserved for Europeans, into a fight that helped free Guinea and put her at Patrice Lumumba's side in Congo.",[14,15,16],"Pan-African independence","Women's political power","Equal access to medicine",{"name":18,"slug":19,"image":20,"country":21,"born":22,"died":23,"era":11,"summary":24,"causes":25},"Deolinda Rodrigues","deolinda-rodrigues","/women/deolinda-rodrigues.jpg","Angola",1939,1968,"Angolan revolutionary, poet and translator who corresponded with Martin Luther King Jr., co-founded the MPLA's women's organisation, marched with the guerrilla Camy Squadron, and was captured and executed at 29. Angola marks Women's Day on the date of her capture.",[26,27,28,29],"Anti-colonial resistance","Women's rights","Scholarship & literature","Pan-Africanism",{"name":31,"slug":32,"image":33,"country":8,"born":34,"died":35,"era":36,"summary":37,"causes":38},"Elisabeth Domitien","elisabeth-domitien","/women/elisabeth-domitien.jpg",1925,2005,"Modern","Businesswoman and politician who in 1975 became Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, the first woman ever to lead a government anywhere in Africa, and who lost the job within a year for telling Bokassa to his face that he should not crown himself emperor.",[39,40,41],"Women's political leadership","Political rights","Economic reform",{"name":43,"slug":44,"image":45,"country":46,"born":47,"died":48,"era":49,"summary":50,"causes":51},"Julienne Lusenge","julienne-lusenge","/women/julienne-lusenge.jpg","Democratic Republic of the Congo",1961,null,"Contemporary","Congolese human rights activist who has spent decades fighting sexual violence as a weapon of war in the DRC, founding organisations that provide legal aid, counselling, and economic support to survivors.",[52,53,54,27],"Gender-based violence","Human rights","Peace & reconciliation",{"name":56,"slug":57,"image":58,"country":46,"born":59,"died":60,"era":61,"summary":62,"causes":63},"Kimpa Vita","kimpa-vita","/women/kimpa-vita.jpg",1684,1706,"Pre-Colonial","Kongolese prophet who led a religious and political movement to reunify the Kingdom of Kongo, claiming to be possessed by Saint Anthony. Burned at the stake at 22.",[64,65,66,67],"Spiritual leadership","Anti-colonial activism","Sovereignty & independence","Cultural preservation",{"name":69,"slug":70,"image":71,"country":21,"born":72,"died":73,"era":61,"summary":74,"causes":75},"Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba","nzinga-ndongo-matamba","/women/nzinga-ndongo-matamba.png",1583,1663,"Queen of Ndongo and Matamba who resisted Portuguese colonisation and the slave trade for four decades through diplomacy, alliance-building, and military leadership.",[66,26,76,77],"Political leadership","Diplomacy & military strategy",{"name":79,"slug":80,"image":81,"country":82,"born":83,"died":10,"era":49,"summary":84,"causes":85},"Rose Lokissim","rose-lokissim","/women/placeholder.svg","Chad",1953,"One of Chad's first female soldiers, who resisted the dictator Hissène Habré from inside his secret-police prisons, documenting atrocities until she was executed. Her defiance, recorded by her own torturers, later helped bring Habré to justice.",[53,86,87],"Democracy","Women's leadership",{"name":89,"slug":90,"image":91,"country":46,"born":92,"died":93,"era":11,"summary":94,"causes":95},"Sophie Kanza","sophie-kanza","/women/sophie-kanza.jpg",1940,1999,"Sociologist and stateswoman who became the first Congolese woman to earn a university degree and, at twenty-six, the first woman ever to hold government office in the DRC, before rising to senior leadership at UNESCO.",[96,97,98,99,100],"Women's access to education","Women's political participation","Social welfare","Educational equity","Disability rights",1789043694942]