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Benjamin Matip

Died in 2017

Benjamin Matip, a French-language writer, was born in 1932 in Cameroon. Trained as a jurist, he defended a thesis in 1957, a year after publishing a first novel. He then produced historical works on relations between Europe and Black Africa in the modern period, followed in 1962 by a collection of tales. In 1979 a novel in dialogue appeared, built like a drama in three acts and twenty-six scenes. He died in Douala in 2017.

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