Marthe Ekemeyong Moumié

Marthe Ekemeyong was born on September 4, 1931, in Cameroon.[1] She joined the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon, and was the leader of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women.[2] She met and married Cameroonian independence leader Félix-Roland Moumié, leaving the country with him to avoid persecution at the hands of the colonial authorities. They lived in several different countries, including Sudan, and were welcomed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt, when they arrived there. They sent their daughter Hélène to school in China.[3] Moumié was assassinated in 1960 while in Geneva, Switzerland. He was poisoned by thallium.[1]

She subsequently entered into a relationship with Atanasio Ndongo Miyone, a nationalist from Equatorial Guinea.[1] He was executed in 1969 following a failed coup against the Equatoguinean government. Ekemeyong later wrote of her experiences in her autobiography Dans Victime du Colonialisme Français (The Victim of French Colonisation) following his death, when she was imprisoned and tortured for five years by the governments of both Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon.[1]