Kompany wa Kompany, 1930-

found: His Les tortures de Eyenga : (roman), c1984:t.p. (Kompany wa Kompany) p. 4 of cover (b. 10/7/30 in Katoka (Tshikapa)-Kasai Occidental)

found: Wikipedia, French version, January 22, 2020(Joseph-Albert Kompany wa Kompany; Kompany wa Kompany; Congolese writer, born October 7, 1930 in Kasaï-Occidental; educated as an agronomist; in 1959 he left Lubumbashi where he worked as a correspondant for L'échos du Katanga to join the Mouvement national congolais of Patrice Lumumba; he worked as a correspondent for L'essor du Congo in Kanshasa 1960-1967; after becoming deaf in 1972 he devoted himself entirely to literature; in the early 1970s he became an active member of the Union des Écrivains Zaïrois (UEZA); editor in chief of the journal Culture et Authenticité 1975-1976, then director of éditions Lokolé; because of his works being often critical toward the Mobutu regime, he as forced to leave Congo in 1993 to take refuge in Liège, Belgium, where he lives to the present)