Werewere Liking

Were Were Liking - Gnepo ( born May 1, 1950 in Bonde, Cameroon ) is a Cameroonian writer and artist who lives in the Ivory Coast.

Life

Werewere - Liking was brought up by her paternal grandparents, according to the tradition of the tribe of Bassa. She lives in Ivory Coast since 1975. Here she has made herself as an employee at the "Institut de littérature et d' esthétique négro - africaines " the University of Abidjan primarily by their research on the tradition and aesthetics in sub-Saharan Africa (including puppets to statues as well as the narrative Kaydara ) a name.

Since the 1980s, she was - instrumental in the renewal of the aesthetics of ritual theater - in addition to Marie -José Hour Antier.

In 1985, she founded the village in Abidjan Ki- Yi M'Bock. In the Bassa language, their native language, means Ki- Yi M'Bock as much as " the knowledge that surpasses all knowledge." Today in this village found around 50 African artists of different ages, different backgrounds and different artistic direction of a home. The artist community Ki- Yi M'Bock to this, so Werewere - Liking, " un mouvement pour la renaissance des arts africains, pour la naissance d'une culture panafricaine contemporaine et pour une rencontre et une reconnaissance des cultures du monde noir " ( a his movement for the rebirth of African arts, for the birth of a contemporary pan-African culture and for the encounter and recognition of the black world Cultures).

Werewere - Liking is a very diverse artist ( writer, painter, director, etc.). Undoubtedly, but above all their plays and their commitment to the artists' village of Ki- Yi have established their international reputation.

For their " chant -roman " La mémoire Amputee received Werewere - Liking in 2005 the prestigious Noma Award for African Literature.

Works

Cultural Studies Working

  • Une vision de Kaydara d' Hamadou - Hampâté -Ba. Abidjan: NEA 1984.
  • Statuettes peintes d' Afrique de l' Ouest. Vol I: Statues colons / Vol II: Marionettes du Mali. Abidjan: NEA 1987.

Plays

  • La queue du diable. In: You rituel à la scène. Paris: Nizet 1979.
  • La puissance de Oum. Abidjan: Ceda 1979.
  • Une nouvelle terre / Du sommeil d' injuste. Dakar: NEA 1980:
  • Les mains veulent dire / La rougeole arc en ciel. In: Spectacles rituels, Dakar: NEA 1987.
  • Singue Muro. Abidjan: Eyo Ki- Yi Edition 1990.
  • Un Touareg s'est marié à une pygmée. Brussels: Lansman 1992.
  • La Veuve dilemma. In: Miller, Judith [Hg ]: Plays by Women. An International Anthology. Vol II New York: Uburepertory theater publications, 1994 [ English translation under the title: The Widow Dylemma ].
  • Le Parler / Parlare cantando La vedova Diylèm ( dilemma ) & Il bambino Mbénè (L' enfant Mbénè ). Turin: L' Harmattan Italia 2003 [ bilingual edition French-Italian ].

Novels

  • A la recherche de ... Abidjan: NEA 1980.
  • Orphée Dafric. Paris: L' Harmattan 1981.
  • Elle sera de jaspe et de corail. Paris: L' Harmattan 1983.
  • La mémoire amputee. Abidjan: Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes 2004.

Fairy tale

  • Liboy Li Nkundung. Paris: Les Classiques Africains 1982.
  • Contes d' initiations féminines. Paris: Les Classiques Africains 1983.
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