Libreville, November 4, 2023 (AGP) – Former Congolese Prime Minister and man of letters, Henri Lopes died on Thursday November 2 in France, at the age of 86, his family announced Friday in Brazzaville, in a press release reported by Franceinfos and TV 5 world.
“Henri died Thursday, November 2 at the Foch hospital in Suresnes (near Paris), carried away by illness,” indicated the press release published by the family of the illustrious deceased.
Considered one of the talented writers who made Congo “the Latin quarter of Central Africa”, he wrote numerous works, including “Le Pleurer-rire”, considered his masterpiece.
Concerning his political career, he was Prime Minister of President Marien Ngouabi, under the Marxist-Leninist regime, between 1973 and 1975. In the 1980s and 1990s, he worked at UNESCO as deputy director for Africa, before to be appointed Congolese ambassador to France in 1998, a position he held for 17 years.
Henri Lopes was born in 1937 in Kinshasa (Léopoldville at the time, in the former Belgian Congo, current Democratic Republic of Congo), to a Portuguese father and a mother from the Plateaux, in the center of Congo-Brazzaville.
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