Jeannette Balou Tchichelle (1947–2005) was a Congolese and French writer. She was born in

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. In 1969 she moved to France, where she lived with her three sons. In 1989,

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La Pensée Universelle published her book ''Coeur en exil'' (''A Heart in Exile''), in which she wrote about life in

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and expressed a homesickness for her native country.

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