Werewere-Liking Gnepo

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Werewere-Liking Gnepo (born May 1, 1950 in Bondè , 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 Bassa people . She has lived in Ivory Coast since 1975. Here she made a name for herself as a collaborator at the “Institut de littérature et d'esthétique négro-africaines” at the University of Abidjan , primarily through her research on the tradition and aesthetics of Sub-Saharan Africa (including puppets , statues and the Kaydara story ).

Since the 1980s she was - alongside Marie-José Hourantier - significantly involved in the renewal of the aesthetics of ritual theater.

In 1985 she founded the village of Ki-Yi M'Bock in Abidjan. In Bassa, their mother tongue, Ki-Yi M'Bock means something like "knowledge that exceeds all knowledge". Today around 50 African artists of various ages, origins and artistic directions find a home in this village. According to Werewere-Liking, the artist community Ki-Yi M'bock should "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 Movement for the rebirth of the African arts, for the birth of a contemporary pan-African culture and for the encounter and recognition of the cultures of the black world).

Werewere-Liking is an extremely diverse artist (writer, painter, director, etc.). Undoubtedly, her plays and her commitment to the artists' village of Ki-Yi have established her international reputation.

In 2005 , Werewere-Liking received the prestigious Noma Prize for African Literature for her “chant-roman” La mémoire amputée .

Works

Cultural studies

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

Plays

  • La queue du diable . In: You ritual à la scene. Paris: Nizet 1979.
  • La puissance de Oum . Abidjan: Ceda 1979.
  • Une nouvelle terre / You 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 [ed.]: 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 French-Italian edition].

Movies

  • "Regard de focus" 1987, 93 min. (Director)
  • "Werewere liking" 26 min. (Film about WL by Issiak Konate)

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.
  • L'amour vent vies . Paris: Publi-Sud 1988.
  • La mémoire amputée . Abidjan: Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes 2004.

fairy tale

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the winners of the Noma Award ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 1, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.afrikaroman.de

Francophone Women Film Directors, Pallister / Hottell, Edition 2005, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ISBN 0-8386-4046-X

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personal data
SURNAME Gnepo, werewere-liking
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cameroonian writer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bondè , Cameroon