Emmanuel Dongala

Emmanuel Dongala was born in 1941 in Alindao, in Ubangi-Shari, to a Congolese father, a schoolteacher, and a Central African mother; he grew up in the Congo, then studied chemistry in the United States and in France. A professor of chemistry at the University of Brazzaville, of which he became dean, he also founded a theatre troupe in 1981, the Théâtre de l'Éclair. The civil war of 1997 made him lose his books, paintings and letters; with the help of Philip Roth, he made his way to the United States, where he taught chemistry and African literature at Bard College at Simon's Rock, in Massachusetts.

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• NovelThe Fire of OriginsLe Feu des originesEmmanuel Dongala · 1987Literature