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Germain Mba 🇬🇦

Germain Mba (Known as "Germain Mba")
Secretary-General of UAM, Ambassador to Japan, Co-founder of MORENA, Diplomat
Born Dec 15, 1932 🇬🇦 Efulan, Woleu-Ntem, Gabon
Passed Away Sep 17, 1971 Libreville, Gabon
Lifespan 38 years old
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"Diplomacy must serve African sovereignty, not foreign neo-colonial interests."

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Brilliant young diplomat and pan-African intellectual who served as Secretary-General of the Afro-Malagasy Union (UAM) and Ambassador to Tokyo, abducted and murdered in Libreville in 1971 for his democratic opposition.

Biographical Record

Germain Mba was born in Woleu-Ntem on December 15, 1932. Graduating with highest honors from the Institut d'Études Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, Mba was one of the most intellectually brilliant young African diplomats of the independence era.

Appointed Secretary-General of the Union Africaine et Malgache (UAM) at age twenty-nine, Mba resigned in protest over the 1964 French military intervention in Gabon, founding the opposition movement MNLG from exile in Algiers. Returning to diplomacy as Ambassador to Japan in 1969, he was ambushed and assassinated in his car in Libreville on September 17, 1971, by foreign mercenary operatives.

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Final Resting Place

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Libreville Clandestine Disappearance Site / Oyem Memorial
Oyem, Woleu-Ntem, Gabon
GPS: 1.5990, 11.5790
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