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  • Feature filmThe CageLa CageRobert Darène · 1963An African doctor, a forester regarded as a sorcerer and a blonde woman in the Gabonese bush, in the early sixties.Cinema
  • TaleContes gabonaisAndré Raponda-Walker · 1967not translated into EnglishThe Gabonese oral tradition, recorded by the first priest of the country, who spoke the languages of those he listened to.Literature
  • EpicLe MvettTsira Ndong Ndoutoume · 1970not translated into EnglishThe great sung epic of the Fang, transcribed into French by a master of the instrument that gives it its name.Literature
  • NarrativeHistoire d'un enfant trouvéRobert Zotoumbat · 1971not translated into EnglishA short Gabonese narrative of 1971, an orphan and famine at the beginning of the century, at the origins of the country's novel.Literature
  • Feature filmThe Tam Tams Are SilentLes tam-tams se sont tusPhilippe Mory · 1971A sculptor attached to custom, a coveted young wife and the city that draws people in, in the early seventies.Cinema
  • Feature filmIdentitéPierre-Marie Dong · 1972A young artist back from Europe looks for his place in his country.Cinema
  • DocumentaryIl était une fois LibrevilleSimon Augé · 1972A documentary on the birth of Libreville and the treaty that opened colonisation, shot a dozen years after independence.Cinema
  • PoetryRêves à l'aubeNdouna Dépénaud · 1975not translated into EnglishA Gabonese collection from 1975, written in chiaroscuro in the days of the one-party state.Literature
  • PoetryLe Crépuscule des silencesPierre-Edgar Moundjegou · 1975not translated into EnglishA Gabonese collection from 1975, which opens the poetry known as that of dissimulation, in which silence is used to speak of society.Literature
  • PoetryChants du GabonGeorges Rawiri · 1975not translated into EnglishA poetry of national celebration, published in 1975 for Gabonese schoolchildren.Literature
  • TaleFables, proverbes et devinettes du Haut-OgoouéJean-Jérôme Adam · 1977not translated into EnglishFables, proverbs and riddles from south-eastern Gabon, collected by an Alsatian missionary who became archbishop of Libreville.Literature
  • Feature filmIlombéCharles Mensah · 1978A young peasant whose hut has burned down believes himself punished by the invisible powers.Cinema
  • NovelElongaAngèle Rawiri · 1980not translated into EnglishThe return of a young mixed-race teacher to a country where witchcraft weighs on people's destinies.Literature
  • TheatreLa Mort de GuykafiVincent de Paul Nyonda · 1981not translated into EnglishA play drawn from legend, centred on a warrior whom the author holds up as a model.Literature
  • Feature filmEquatorÉquateurSerge Gainsbourg · 1983An unemployed Frenchman in colonial Libreville, caught between a hotel owner and a murder the whites cover up.Cinema
  • NovelLa Mouche et la gluMaurice Okoumba-Nkoghé · 1984not translated into EnglishA teenage love threatened by a forced marriage, witchcraft and the violence of power, in a Gabonese village.Literature
  • NovelAu bout du silenceLaurent Owondo · 1985not translated into EnglishA bereavement tears an adolescent from his coastal village and throws him into the poor districts of Libreville.Literature
  • NarrativeBiboubouah, chroniques équatorialesFerdinand Allogho-Oké · 1985not translated into EnglishShort tales of the Fang country and its forests, built on the unusual events that the language names with a single word.Literature
  • PoetryVoyage au cœur de la plèbeQuentin Ben Mongaryas · 1986not translated into EnglishA collection of political poetry from the nineteen-eighties, in the time of the single party and of closely watched speech.Literature
  • Short filmRaphiaPaul Mouketa · 1986A Gabonese short film awarded a prize at Carthage, whose subject has not been described anywhere.Cinema
  • Novel53 cmBessora · 1999not translated into EnglishAn apprentice anthropologist of the Gauls in search of papers: Bessora's first, absurdist novel.Literature
  • NovelAwu's StoryHistoire d'AwuJustine Mintsa · 2000The life of a village seamstress, the second wife of a schoolteacher, caught between the custom of northern Gabon and the school.Literature
  • Feature filmDjogoLes Couilles de l'éléphantHenri-Joseph Koumba Bididi · 2000An election campaign in an imaginary African town, where a deputy's impotence becomes a public matter.Cinema
  • Feature filmDôlèImunga Ivanga · 2000Teenagers left to fend for themselves in Libreville, and a scratch-card lottery that promises a fortune.Cinema