Author · Cameroon
Mongo Beti
Died in 2001
Alexandre Biyidi Awala, who signs Mongo Beti, was born on 30 June 1932 in Akométan, near Mbalmayo. In 1951 he left to study literature at Aix-en-Provence and then at the Sorbonne, passed the agrégation in classics in 1966 and taught until 1994 at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen. In 1972, an essay on the decolonisation of his country was banned in France. In 1978 he founded a journal with his wife, Odile Tobner, returned to Cameroon in 1991, opened a bookshop in Yaoundé and died in Douala on 8 October 2001.
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- NovelMission to KalaMission terminéeMongo Beti · 1957Literature