Missy M.Bangala

Advisory Board

Missy M. Bangala, cultural promoter, marketing and communication professional, member of the board of GROUP50 :50.

Missy M. Bangala is the initiator of the non-profit organisation Café Littéraire de Missy, which has made a positive mark on the Congolese cultural landscape. In fact, CALM promotes culture in general and Congolese literature by being a meeting place for all the actors of the book. She has been a manager of cultural projects at the European Union delegation in the DRC, she is also an administrator at the LIBOKE network (association of independent cultural centres in the DRC) and most recently vice-presidentof the literature college at the Congolese civil society of authors' rights called ADACO. She won two awards in 2022, including Woman of Distinction and Out of Age 100 Young People Who Inspire, for her work in writing and promoting Congolese literature; she was listed as one of the fifty women influencers of the DRC in March of the same year.

Currently, she is director of projects and communication at GBE Agri (Groupe Blattner Elwyn Agri), where she develops social and cultural projects in 5 provinces of the DRC.