Theatre
Haute trahison
Not translated into English
Rabiatou Njoya · 1990
Synopsis
A play published in 1990 after Raisons de royaume, and linked to it by the same logic: the conquest of power in the Bamoun kingdom, in western Cameroon, which the presentation of the volume describes as the crucible of a living history resting on age-old traditions.
Context
The play was published in Yaoundé in 1990 by éditions Sopecam, in a 63-page volume that joins it to Raisons de royaume, a tragedy in three acts whose first act takes place in the apartments of the queen mother Shetfon, shortly after the enthronement of King Nsangou. The back cover places the two plays within the history of the Bamum kingdom and its traditions. Its author, whom the writer Pabé Mongo called above all a dramatist, had signed in 1984, with other members of her lineage, a book on one hundred years of Bamum history.
Who it is for
In French, a short play. It helps to know that the Bamoun kingdom keeps its kings and its court at Foumban within the Cameroonian state.
Prizes and reception
No prize traced for the play. Its author received the prize of the Association of Cameroonian Poets and Writers in 1990 or 1991 for a short story.
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