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Philippe E. Wamba ’93, a rising African-American literary talent, was memorialized Saturday at a somber three-hour service that drew a cross-cultural congregation of more than 100 to Cambridge’s First Unitarian Universalist Church...
...Wamba spent his early life in both the U.S. and Africa before returning to Cambridge for college...
...Harvard, Wamba found a mentor in DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., who later hired him to edit Africana.com, the website that culminated Gates’ efforts to spread understanding of African cultures...
Since April, Wamba had been travelling in the continent working on his second book, about the African youth movement and its growth within the troubled continent. He also had plans to write about the women’s emancipation movement in Africa...
...Wamba is survived by his mother, father and two younger brothers, one of whom was injured in the accident, as well as his fiancee, Marang Setshwaelo of Johannesburg...