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Belgian citizen, journalist, writer and African linguist (licence Philologie africaine, ex-Université Lovanium, Kinshasa, RDCongo; Drs African Linguistics, University of Leiden, Netherlands; BA History, University of South Africa), veteran of the South African liberation struggle of the ANC, ex-political prisoner of apartheid.
Distinctions: Woman of Europe 1988, Order of the Companions of O.R.Tambo, South Africa, 2011.
Journalism: various Belgian publications (Dutch and French language); foreign correspondent in Chile for Belgian radio and print media; free lance. Books: North/South solidarity (1991), Dutch translation of Mapuche poet Elicura Chihailaf (Chile), book about South Africa to be published in April 2012 in the Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek) and end 2012 in South Africa (Real African Books, formerly STE publishers).
Linguistics: research in RD Congo (Libinza), Côte d'Ivoire (Anyi-Baule), Mozambique (dialectology, language policies), South Africa (new language policy). Lecturing: University of Leiden, Netherlands, University Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique.