A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

Antoine-Roger Bolamba was born in 1913 in the Belgian Congo and would become a prominent Congolese poet, journalist, and politician. He was first hired by the colonial government in 1944 to manage its press division, and quickly was promoted to editor in chief of the publication La Voix du Congolais. By 1960, Patrice Lumumba encouraged Bolamba to join his liberal party; Bolamba was appointed the Secretary of State for Information and Cultural Affairs to the independent Congolese government. Though not a prolific writer, Bolamba is considered an important French-language writer in Belgian Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine-Roger_Bolamba