Charline Effah was born in Gabon. Today in Paris, business manager by day, she writes by night. For “The Women of Bidibidi»Charline went to northern Uganda.
“After the death of her father, Minga learns that her mother, Joséphine, disappeared under mysterious circumstances in East Africa, where she worked for an NGO. To try to find out more, she goes to the camp of Bidibidi, in northern Uganda, where people fleeing the civil war raging in South Sudan live. She discovers that everything revolves around one woman: Rose, whose memory haunts every corner of the camp. If she wants to know the end of the story, Minga must find Rose.
With the Women of Bidibidi, Charline Effah tells how survivors of domestic violence or war rape try to rebuild themselves and reinvent love far from the brutality of the men who loved them badly. Breaking taboos, she gives us a moving and universal novel about women’s bodies. The novel of reparation.” (Editions Emmanuelle Collas)