Ferdinand Oyono

Ferdinand Oyono was a writer, diplomat, politician and minister (1929–2010). He was born at Ngoulemakong and died at Yaoundé.

Also recorded as Ferdinand Léopold Oyono.

Overview

Born at Ngoulemakong in 1929, died at Yaoundé in 2010.

Career and activity

He was employed by United Nations. Recorded positions include ambassador, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Arts and Culture.

Catalogued works

13 works under this name are catalogued by Open Library.

Ferdinand Oyono. Ecce homo, Ferdinand Léopold Oyono. The old man and the medal. Boi. Boy! Road to Europe. Houseboy. Le\Vieux Negre et la Medaille. Une vie de boy and Le vieux nègre et la médaille. Chemin d'Europe. Le vieux nègre et la médaille. Vie de boy. Une vie de boy.

Literature

13 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Oyono, Ferdinand, African American Studies Center, 2011. Oyono, Ferdinand, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020. FERDINAND OYONO (1929-), Postcolonial African Writers, 2012. Oyono, Ferdinand: Le chemin d'Europe, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020. Oyono, Ferdinand: Une vie de boy, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020. Un regard oblique : « L’œil du sorcier » dans Une vie de boy de Ferdinand Oyono, Voix Plurielles, 2014. D’un imaginaire colonial à un autre : Ferdinand Oyono en traduction allemande, Itinéraires, 2019. Violent Fathers and Runaway Sons: Colonial Relationships in Une vie de boy and Mission terminée, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 2003. Les problématiques du travail domestique entre littérature, cinéma et sociologie africains : mémoire et actualité, Akofena, 2025. L’univers carcéral dans : Une Vie de boy de Ferdinand OYONO, Les Soleils des Indépendances d’Ahmadou KOUROUMA, Bleu Blanc Rouge d’Alain MABANCKOU, Ziglôbitha, 2024. Instrumentalisation de la comédie comme moyen de combat et de négociation vu par Jean Giraudoux et Ferdinand Oyono, Ziglôbitha, 2022. (Auto)cenzura tří angažovaných kamerunských romanopisců: Ferdinand Oyono, Mongo Beti a Patrice Nganang, Svět Literatury, 2020. Satire in African Letters: Black Appraisals of White Ethnologists in the Works of Ferdinand Oyono, Tchicaya U'Tam'si and Yambo Ouloguem, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1980.

Digitised editions and texts

3 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

le vieux negre et la medaille (1956) — Internet Archive. Boy! (1970) — Internet Archive. Houseboy (2012) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 19 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 15 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

Ferdinand Oyono studied at École nationale d'administration. the recorded working language is French.

Employment is recorded with United Nations. Positions recorded include ambassador and Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Chronology

  1. 1929Ferdinand Oyono born at Ngoulemakong.
  2. 1956le vieux negre et la medaille digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 1970Boy! digitised by Internet Archive.
  4. 2010Ferdinand Oyono died at Yaoundé.
  5. 2012Houseboy digitised by Internet Archive.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  • reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

    “Ferdinand Oyono”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  • reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q1000379: Ferdinand Oyono

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