Justo Bolekia Boleká (born 13 December 1954) is an Equatorial Guinean
scholar
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and
writer
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of
Bubi
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* Bubi people, an ethnic group in Central Africa
* Bubi language, a Bantu language spoken in Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea
* Bubi District, Zimbabwe
* Bubi River, a tributary of the Limpopo River in Zimbabwe
* BuBi, a bicy ...
descent.
Life and career
He attended college at
Complutense University of Madrid
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obtaining a Doctorate degree in Modern Philology in 1986. On June 8, 2007, he received a Ph.D. from the
University of Salamanca
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, and was awarded their PhD Extraordinary Award.
He was Acting Professor of French Studies at the
University of Salamanca
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from 1987 until 1990, he then became Assistant Professor of French Studies at the same university. He has also served as Director of the Escuela Universitaria de Educación de
Ávila
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. He has published numerous books of essays and poetry.
His work has been studied by American professors interested in Afro-Hispanic literary production, and has been included in anthologies of poetry (''Literatura de Guinea Ecuatorial'', de
Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo y
Mbare Ngom Faye, 2000; ''La voz y la escritura 2006: 80 nuevas propuestas poéticas'', 2006). He also authored such works as ''Panorama de la Literatura en español en Guinea Ecuatorial'' published in ''El español en el mundo. Anuario del Instituto Cervantes'', 2005.
Politically, he has been responsible for the political group ''Demócratas por el Cambio para Guinea Ecuatorial'', and is Permanent Delegate of the MAIB Abroad (
Movement for the Self-Determination of Bioko Island
The Movement for the Self-Determination of Bioko Island () is a proscribed political organization in Equatorial Guinea. It has its roots in the pre-independence Unión Bubi, which sought independence from the mainland half of Spanish Guinea. It ...
), as opposed to the regime of
Teodoro Obiang.
Miscellaneous works
Articles
*''El aumento o actualizador definido en lengua bubi'' (en "Muntu, Revue scientifique et Culturelle", n.7,
Gabón, 1987)
*''Panorama de la literatura en español en Guinea Ecuatorial'' (en Anuario del Instituto Cervantes, 2005)
*''La Realidad Literaria y Lingüística de Guinea Ecuatorial'' (en El Fingidor nº 19–20, mayo-diciembre de 2003, Revista de Cultura)
*''Literatura Francófona Africana'' (en Pueblos nº 2003, Revista de Información y Debate. )
*''Etc.''
Thesis
*''Aspectos lingüísticos y sociolingüísticos del bubi del noreste'' (tesis doctoral, Editorial de la
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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, 1988)
*''La enculturación bubi desde los préstamos del pidgin-English. Procesos de lexicalización progresiva'' (Universidad de Salamanca, 2007)
Instructional books
*''Curso de Lengua Bubi'', (
Centro Cultural Hispano-Guineano
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Places Brazil
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* Centro (Duque de Caxias), a neighborhood of Du ...
, 1991)
*''Antroponimia bubi. Estudio Lingüístico'' (1994)
*''Narraciones bubis. Otra morfología del cuento africano'' (1994)
*''Breve diccionario bubi-castellano y castellano-bubi'' (1997)
*''Aprender el bubi. Método para principiantes'' (1999)
*''Lenguas y Poder en África'' (2001)
*''Aproximación a la historia de Guinea Ecuatorial'' (2003)
*''Cuentos bubis de la isla de Bioko'' (2003)
*''La Francofonía. El nuevo rostro del colonialismo en África'' (2005)
*''Poesía en lengua bubi (Antología y estudio) (2007)''
*''Lingüística bantu a través del bubi (2008)''
*''La Francofonía. El nuevo rostro del colonialismo en África. 2ª edición corregida y ampliada (2008)''
*''Diccionario español-bubi/Ë ribúkku ra balláa béböbé-lëëpanná (2009)''
*''Recuerdos del abuelo Bayebé y otros relatos bubis (2014)''
Poetry
*''Löbëla'' (1999)
*''Ombligos y raíces. Poesía africana'' (2006)
*''Las reposadas imágenes de antaño'' (2008)
Other books
*''Lenguas para fines específicos IV. Investigación y enseñanza'' (1996)
*''Ciencia y memoria de África: actas de las III Jornadas sobre Expediciones científicas y africanismo español, 1898–1998'' (2002)
*''La Recuperación de la Memoria. Creación cultural e identidad nacional en la literatura Hispano-negroafricana'' (2004)
*''La Voz y la Escritura. Antología 2006'' (2006)
*''Etnias, Estado y Poder en África'' (2005)
*''De Boca en Boca. Estudios de Literatura Oral de Guinea Ecuatorial'' (2004)
*''De Promisión'' (2007)
*''El Futuro de las Lenguas. Diversidad frente a Uniformidad'' (2008)
*''Un mundo de relatos. Antología'' (2009)
*''Caminos y veredas: narrativas de Guinea Ecuatorial'' (2011)
*''Etc.''
See also
*
Antumi Toasijé
Antumi Pallas (born 13 November 1969), also known as Antumi Toasijé, is a Spanish-Colombian historian and advocate for Pan-Africanism of about half African descent (Afro-Spaniard). A Global History lecturer at the University of New York in Madrid ...
– related Equatorial Guinean (By African traditional custom) Pan-Africanist
References
External links
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Equatoguinean writers
Equatoguinean male writers
Movement for the Self-Determination of Bioko Island
People of Bubi descent
Living people
1954 births
University of Salamanca alumni
Academic staff of the University of Salamanca
People from Bioko Norte
Complutense University of Madrid alumni