Culture of Cameroun

Literature

The Cameronian literature is for the greatest part a French-speaking literature marked by personalities which had also political responsibilities. In the names testify to Jacques Bonjawo, Gaston Kelman and Ebénézer Njoh-Mouellé. The living conditions of the Cameronians, the History and the destiny of Africa, are major topics their works like those of the two Cameronian authors most important: Mongo Beti and Ferdinand Oyono.

Mongo Beti

Alexandre Biyidi Awala, Mongo Beti is a free-Cameronian writer. Famous novelist, engaged essay writer, teacher, bookseller and editor, it belongs to African great writers the. (June 30th, 1932 - October 7th, 2001)

Bibliography:

Without hatred and love , 1953.
cruel City , 1954
the poor Christ of Bent , 1956.
finished Mission , 1957.
the miraculé king: chronicle of Essazam , 1958.
Control on the Cameroun: autopsy of a decolonization , 1972.
lawsuits of Cameroun: autopsy of a decolonization , 1972.
Perpetuates and the practice of misfortune , 1974.
Remember Ruben , 1974.
black Peuples, African people , 1978.
the ruin almost cocasse of Punchinello: Remember Ruben 2,1979.
African languages and the Neocolonialism in French-speaking Africa , 1982.
two mothers of Guillaume Ismaël Dzewatama, future truck-driver , 1983.
the revenge of Guillaume Ismael Dzewatama , 1984.
Open letter with the Cameronian, or, second died of Ruben Um Nyobé , 1986.
Dictionary of the négritude with Odile Tobner and the participation of collab. review black People - African People , 1989.
the France against the Africa: return to the Cameroun , 1993.
the history of the fo U, 1994.
Trop of sun kills the love , 1999.
Swing-low in black and white , 2000.
African if you speak , 2005

Ferdinand Oyono

Ferdinand Oyono, born on September 14th, 1929, is a Cameronian diplomat and politician at the same time as a writer of French language, author of three novels published in the end of the Fifties. Bibliography:

a life of servant boy , 1956,
the old negro and the medal , 1956,
Way of Europe , 1960,

Cinema

Principal Cameronian realizers and catalog of films

Bassek Ba Kobhio (originator and organizer of the festival Black screen)

Sango Malo (1991)
Birth of a democracy (1995)
the large white of Lambaréné (1994)
the white queen

Jean-Paul Ngassa

Aventure in France (1962)
a nation was born (1970)

Jean-Pierre Bekolo

Quartier Mozart (1992)
Cuts you seen Franklin Roosevelt? (1994)
the Plot of Aristote (???)

Therese Sita Bleated

Tam-tam in Paris (1963)

Jean-Pierre Dikongue Pipa

Muna Motor bike (the Child of the other) price of the Panafrican Festival of Ouagadougou of 1975 and Grand Prix Fespaco 1976
Funny stories, funny people (1983)
Short disease (1987)

Daniel Kamwa

Boubou tie (1972)
Pousse Pushes (1975)
Chantal Rega (1977)
the line of the heart (1978)
Novotel (1979)
Adum (1979)
Danse automat dances (1980)
Messe in Melen (1980)
Our daughter (1980)
Camwood-air ten years of rise (1981)
Us them insane of the wheel (1982)
the flowers of the soil, (1983)
the found little girl (1987)
Totor (1994)
the Circle of the Capacities (1997)

Jean-Marie Téno

De Ouaga with Douala while passing by Paris (1987)
Africa, I will pluck you (1992)
the Head in the clouds (1994)
Clando (1996)
Vacances with the Country (???)
Chief! (1999)

Jules Takam

Waiting (1972)
Lure of gain (1979)

Gerard Lebrun-Mbiele

the Eye of the Village (1990)

Cultural events

the 1st biennial one of the Photography and Visual Arts, was held from January 14th to 23rd 2005 with Douala with the Cameroun. On the topic “ Traces and Mémoire ”, fourteen photographers and seventeen painters African, afro caribéens and Europeans expose their works.

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