Étienne Goyémidé

Étienne Goyémidé was born in Ippy, in Ubangi-Shari, in 1942, into a peasant family. A graduate in educational sciences and in English, he was a teacher and then director of the teacher training college in Bangui, ran a printing house, then the national theatre troupe, for which he wrote many plays. Minister of Education and Research in 1991 and 1992, and awarded several prizes for his short stories, he died on 17 March 1997.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelLe Silence de la forêtÉtienne Goyémidé · 1984not translated into EnglishLiterature