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2011
Abstract
Ferdinand Oyono was a Cameroonian statesman and a Francophone novelist of the first generation of African writers who became active after World War II. He entered the literary scene at a time when writers such as his fellow Cameroonian Mongo Beti and the Senegalese Sembene Ousmane and Leopold Sedar Senghor were at their peak. Oyono and Mongo Beti are known as "the forefathers of modern African Identity" for their anticolonial novels.
Recommended Citation
Kapanga, Kasongo Mulenda. "Ferdinand Oyono." In Contemporary African Writers, edited by Tanure Ojaide, 232-35. Vol. 360. Dictionary of Literary Biography. New York: Gale, 2011.
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