Brenda Odimba
Brenda Odimba (also spelled as Brända Audimba) is a Belgian engineer and decolonial activist. Odimba was one of the activists supporting the spokespeople of the 2021 hunger strike of undocumented migrants in Belgium. Odimba founded the association Mwasi asbl (NewSisterhood). Early life Odimba was born is Brussels in 1989. Her father is Belgian and her mother was born in Congo. Her mother lived in Belgium as an undocumented worker for a number of years. Odimba studied at Université libre de Bruxelles and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She is a trained Chemical Engineer. Decolonial activist Odimba is a decolonial activist. She helped organize the George Floyd protests in Belgium in 2020 and was part of an unofficial Black Lives Matter movement. In April 2023, Odimba helped draw attention to a police shooting of a psychiatric patient in Brussels, at Fond’Roy Clinic. The clinic called the police on its patient after the patient became agitated. A collective of health professionals alleged that the skin colour of the patient was a deciding factor in the way the police handled the situation, resulting in the death of the patient, a Black man, while Odimba highlighted the fact that this incident of police violence was a