Jean Ikellé-Matiba

Jean Ikellé-Matiba was born in 1936 in Sanaga-Maritime, in Cameroon. He studied in Paris, where he received his doctorate in law in 1963, the year of his first novel, and then worked in France and Germany. According to Susanne Gehrmann, who studied his papers held at Humboldt University in Berlin, he sought there to be recognised as a poet and as an intellectual, left unpublished essay projects and corresponded with Janheinz Jahn, the German promoter of African literatures. He died in Germany in 1984.

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• NovelCette Afrique-là!Jean Ikellé-Matiba · 1963not translated into EnglishLiterature