Badiangana was born in 1939 and attended a Catholic primary school in Brazzaville, studying for additional courses.
[1] She joined the local section of her branch (the GCAT) of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), which was a union for workers in commerce and industry and had communist tendencies.
[citation needed] Badiangana was also one of the leaders of the African Women's Union of the Congo (UFAC), which was linked to the UJC.
They also benefited from the support of André Malraux, then the local representative of France, who intervened with President Fulbert Youlou to ask him to organize a trial.
[citation needed] She returned to her job at the union, who are critical of the government's employment policy and working conditions.
[citation needed] In August 1963, Fulbert Youlou decided to create a single party with an affiliated union, in order to control his opponents.
She was co-opted to sit on the central committee of the single party, the National Movement of the Revolution (MNR), set up in 1964.
[10] Badiangana participated as narrator in the film Revolutionary(s) by Hassim Tall Boukambou (2001), which traced the political history of Congo-Brazzaville through the story of the revolution of August 1963.