'Les femmes de Pakadjuma’ (tr: 'The women of Pakadjuma’) by Ange Kasongo

“I’m a bastard. An “adulterous child”, as they say in Pakadjuma.”

 Here I am again, Ophélie, here in Pakadjuma. I am faced with my story once told only by my mother. But today, through the stony streets of this neighborhood where I was born, I am reborn. Who are the characters who liven up this place whose reputation is painted red and black in the Kinois imagination? Are the “Balobaki” about the women who live there true?
 From the pen of Ange Kasongo, Ophélie sets out on a quest for identity in the most feared slum of the Congolese capital. The foreign origins of her father and the stages of this research place her face to face with universal questions about space, identity, insecurity and relationships with others. Here is a fictional story with autobiographical tones that takes readers on an unforgettable tour of Paka.