Ferdinand Oyono

Ferdinand Léopold Oyono ( born September 14, 1929 in Ebolowa, † June 10, 2010 in Yaoundé ) was a Cameroonian writer and politician.

Life

Ferdinand Oyono attended a French missionary school and graduated from high school in Provins, France. He then studied law and political science at the Sorbonne. In 1960 he entered the diplomatic service of Cameroon and was from 1965 to Ambassador in Liberia and in the Benelux countries and finally in Paris for Spain, Italy, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. In 1974 he was Permanent Representative to the United Nations, from 1982 again ambassador to Algeria, Libya, Britain and Scandinavia. In 1985 he was appointed Secretary General of the President Paul Biya, then to the Minister. From 1992 to 1997 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs, from 1997 to 2007 he was Minister of Culture. Oyono was married and had three children.

Ferdinand Oyonos three novels that were published from 1956 to 1960, are the highlights of the anti-colonial literature. In contrast, as it was customary at the time of negritude, they are not written in anprangerndem tone. Nor does it overlook the pre-colonial history of Africa back overly idealistic, but they represent the time of colonialism dar. humorous and ironic

Works

• Une Vie de Boy (1956, dt Volatile trace Tundi Ondua 1958)
• Le Vieux et la Médaille nègre (1956, dt The Old Man and the Medal 1957)
• Le Chemin d'Europe (1960 )