Clémentine Nzuji

Clémentine Nzuji, who became Faïk-Nzuji Madiya, was born on 21 January 1944 at Tshofa, in Kasai-Oriental. A poet from her student days, she led the literary circle of the Pléiade du Congo at Lovanium University in the mid-sixties, and in 1969 received the Léopold Sédar Senghor poetry prize. She took a licence in African philology in 1972 and taught oral literatures in Zaire and then in Niamey; settled in Belgium in 1980, she taught at the Catholic University of Louvain, where in 1986 she founded a centre devoted to African languages and traditions.

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• PoetryKasala, chant héroïque lubaClémentine Nzuji · 1974not translated into EnglishLiterature