Author · Equatorial Guinea
Raquel Ilombé
Died in 1992
Raquel del Pozo Epita, who signed as Raquel Ilombé after an obedient girl in the Ndowe tales, was born in Corisco, in 1938 or in 1931 according to the sources, to a Guinean mother and a Spanish father. Taken to Spain as a small child, she studied music and declamation at the Madrid Conservatory. After her marriage, she returned to the country and travelled there even under the dictatorship, going from village to village to collect Fang, Bubi and Ndowe legends. She died in Madrid in 1992.
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- PoetryCeibaRaquel Ilombé · 1978not translated into EnglishLiterature