Werewere Liking (born 1950, in
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...
) is a writer, playwright and performer based in
Abidjan
Abidjan ( , ; N’ko: ߊߓߌߖߊ߲߬) is the economic capital of the Ivory Coast. As of the 2021 census, Abidjan's population was 6.3 million, which is 21.5 percent of overall population of the country, making it the sixth most populous city p ...
,
Côte d'Ivoire. She established the Ki-Yi Mbock theatre troupe in 1980 and founded the Ki-Yi village in 1985 for the artistic education of young people.
Her novel ''Elle sera de jaspe et de corail'' is a song-novel recounted by an astute ''misovire'' (literally 'man-hater' from misos Gr. "hate" and vir Lat. "man") in writing a journal on nine themes as a dialectic between two men wherein the author of the journal imagines a new race of people uninhibited by the historical baggage of patriarchy and colonialism. She is the author of the
African feminist theory "misovirism."
She received a
Prince Claus Award in 2000 for her contributions to culture and society, and the
Noma Award in 2005 for her book ''La mémoire amputée''.
Writing
Her books and plays include:
* ''La mémoire amputée'', Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes (2004),
* ''Elle sera de jaspe et de corail'', Editions L'Harmattan (1983), - trans. Marjolijn De Jager, ''It shall be of jasper and coral; and, Love-across-a-hundred-lives'' (two novels), University Press of Virginia (2000),
* ''La puissance de Um'' (1979) and ''Une nouvelle terre'' (1980) - trans. Jeanne Dingome, ''African Ritual Theatre: The Power of Um and a New Earth'', International Scholars Pubs. (1997),
Further reading
* Simon Gikandi, ''Encyclopedia of African Literature'', Routledge (2002), - pp. 288–9
* Katheryn Wright, ''Extending generic boundaries: Werewere Liking's L'amour-cent-vies'', in Research in African Literatures, June 2002 accessed a
March 5, 2007
* Don Rubin, ''World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Africa'', Routledge (2000),
* Nicki Hitchcott, ''Women Writers in Francophone Africa'', Berg Publishers (2000), - focuses on
Mariama Bâ
Mariama Bâ (April 17, 1929 – August 17, 1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist, whose two French-language novels were both translated into more than a dozen languages. Born in Dakar, she was raised a Muslim.
Her frustration with the fate ...
,
Aminata Sow Fall
Aminata Sow Fall (born 27 April 1941) is a Senegalese-born author. While her native language is Wolof, her books are written in French. She is considered "the first published woman novelist from francophone Black Africa".Margaret Busby, '' Daugh ...
, Werewere Liking and
Calixthe Beyala: see publisher's detail
* Peter Hawkins, ''Werewere Liking at the Villa Ki-Yi'', in African Affairs, Vol.90, No.359 (Apr. 1991), pp. 207–222 - accessed a
March 1, 2007
Notes
External links
Werewere Liking Gnepo, University of Western Australia
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1950 births
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