| 词条 | Paul Panda Farnana |
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Paul Panda Farnana M'Fumu (1888 – 12 May 1930) was a Congolese agronomist and expatriate who lived in Europe in the first decades of the 1900s. He has been considered to be the first Congolese intellectual. Early life and educationPaul Panda Farnana was born in Zemba-lez-Moanda, Bas-Congo Province, Congo Free State in 1888. He was the son of Luizi Fernando, a government-appointed chief,{{sfn|Akyeampong|Gates|2012|p=348}} and a woman named N'Sengo.{{sfn|Coosemans|1952|p=668}} A Belgian official, Lieutenant Jules Derscheid, offered to bring Farnana to Belgium to receive an education. He accepted, and they arrived in Brussels on 25 April 1900.{{sfn|Akyeampong|Gates|2012|p=348}} Once there, Dersheid turned custody of Farnana over to his sister, Louise. Farnana was brought up in an upper-class setting. Louise educated him in music and drawing and sent him to the Athénée Royal d'Ixelles for a secondary education.{{sfn|Brosens|2014|loc=paragraphs 6, 8}} In 1904 he passed an entrance exam and was enrolled in a horticultural and agricultural school in Vilvoorde, graduating three years later with distinction. In 1908 Farnana studied at an institute for tropical agriculture in Nogent-sur-Marne, Paris, France. That same year he studied English in Mons.{{sfn|Akyeampong|Gates|2012|p=348}} This education made him the first Congolese to ever receive a diploma of higher education in Belgium.[1] Career and activismIn 1909 Farnana was hired as an agricultural specialist by the Belgian colonial government which had since transformed the Congo Free State into the Belgian Congo. In June he was assigned to the Botanic Garden of Eala, near Coquilhatville.{{sfn|Akyeampong|Gates|2012|p=348}} Shortly before the outbreak of World War I Farnana was living in Belgium. When Belgium was invaded by Germany in 1914, Farnana enlisted in the Belgian Army.{{sfn|Doumanis|2016|loc=Moving People and Exporting Conflicts}} He served with the Korps der Congolese Vrijwilligers (Congolese Volunteers Corps) during the Siege of Namur. On 23 August 1914 he was taken prisoner in Liège and deported to Germany where he spent the remainder of the war.{{sfn|Brosens|2014|loc=paragraph 9}} After his release, he founded an association known as the Union Congolaise to advocate for the interests of other Congolese veterans of the war.{{sfn|Doumanis|2016|loc=Moving People and Exporting Conflicts}} Farnana participated in the first and second Pan-African Congresses in 1919 and 1921, respectively. He also attended the First National Belgian Colonial Congress in 1920.{{sfn|Vanthemsche|2012|p=63}} He actively criticized Belgian colonial practices, arguing that the ban on forced labour in the Congo was not being consistently applied and education for the native population was inadequate. He also called for the Congolese to be granted political rights.{{sfn|Bobineau|Gieg|2016|p=20}} In 1929 Farnana went to Matadi to manage an oil mill. He died there nine months later.{{sfn|Dubois|1930|p=312}} LegacyFarnana is considered by historians to be the first Congolese intellectual.{{sfn|Vanthemsche|2012|p=63}} Following his death, Belgium forbade any further Congolese from studying in Belgium.[1] Farnana's work was largely forgotten by the public until Congolese historians began uncovering details about his life in the 1970s and 1980s. A Belgian documentary was made about him in 2008.{{sfn|Akyeampong|Gates|2012|p=350}} See also
Citations1. ^1 {{cite web| url = https://www.africavivre.com/republique-democratique-du-congo/a-voir/documentaires/panda-farnana-un-congolais-qui-derange-de-francoise-levie.html| title = Panda Farnana, un Congolais qui dérange de Françoise Levie| date = August 2014| website = Africa Vivre| access-date = 29 December 2016| language = French}} References{{refbegin}}
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