Werewere Liking
Werewere Liking (born 1950, in Cameroon) is a writer, playwright and performer based in Abidjan, 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.
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- Name
- Werewere Liking
- Born
- 1950
- Occupation
- stage performer, writer
- Awards
- Prince Claus Award in 2000
- Nationality
- Cameroon · Ivory Coast
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Werewere Liking (born 1950, in Cameroon) is a writer, playwright and performer based in Abidjan, 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.
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"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.
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• Name — Werewere Liking • Born — 1950 • Occupation — stage performer, writer • Awards — Prince Claus Award in 2000
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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),
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1950
Werewere Liking was born in 1950.
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Her recorded language was French. She married Pape Gnepo. Liking received Prince Claus Award, Noma Award for Publishing in Africa and Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
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