The Library of Congress > LCCN Permalink

View this record in:  MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)External Link

Thelin, Francisca

LC control no.no2014117904
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingThelin, Francisca
    Browse this term in  LC Authorities  or the  LC Catalog
Associated countryCongo (Democratic Republic) United States
Place of birthDungu (Congo)
Found inMama Koko and the hundred gunmen, 2014: ECIP data view , summary (Francisca Thelin; grew up on her family's coffee plantation in Dungu, Congo) ECIP text (Congolese-American; native language, Lingala; speaks French; her father built the family coffee plantation at the village of Duru, fifty miles north of Dungu, close to Garamba National Park; married a Peace Corps volunteer; they settled briefly in Rwanda in 1994 just before the genocide forced them to flee to Congo, then settled in Portland, OR; many members of her family were killed by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army during attacks in Orientale Province in 2008; traveled back to Dungu with friend and human rights activist (and the book's author) Lisa Shannon)
Associated languagelin fre eng