Louis-Marie Pouka

Louis-Marie Pouka-M'Bague was born on 10 August 1910 in Bassa country. A supporter of the assimilation of Cameroonians into French culture, he published in 1943 a poem on the trials of the French under the German occupation, lived in France in the forties and returned home in the following decade. A former general secretary of the Jeunesse camerounaise française, he was the founding president of the Association of Cameroonian Poets and Writers. He died on 5 September 1991, aged eighty-one.

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• PoetryLes Rêveries tumultueusesLouis-Marie Pouka · 1954not translated into EnglishLiterature