Isaac Moumé Etia

Isaac Moumé Etia, a writer and linguist, was born in 1889 in Cameroon under the German protectorate. From the twenties onwards he published works on the language and customs of the Douala, including a collection of information printed in Brest in 1928, then his fables in two languages. He died in Douala in 1939. His two sons also became writers: Abel, a meteorological engineer and senior civil servant, published in Douala and in French, and Léopold became the historian of the beginnings of Cameroonian trade unionism.

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• TaleLes Fables de DoualaIsaac Moumé Etia · 1930not translated into EnglishLiterature