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Cameroonianb. 1950Drama

Cameroonian-Ivoirian playwright, novelist, and performance artist who founded the Ki-Yi Mbock Theatre Company in Abidjan. Her ritualistic, feminist theatre draws on Bassa oral tradition and creates new pan-African forms.

Works

  • It Shall Be of Jasper and CoralMystical theatrical narrative of African spiritual transformation and healing→
  • The Amputated MemoryNovel exploring collective memory and trauma recovery in post-colonial Cameroon→
  • Orphee Dafric→
  • A New Earth→
  • The Power of Um→
  • Elle sera de jaspe et de corailMystical theatrical narrative of African spiritual transformation and healing→
  • The Orphan Griot→

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