Werewere liking biography channels
Her novel L'amour-cent-vies () is a hybrid text that includes numerous genres and stylistic features present in oral traditions.
One of the most recognized playwrights and stage directors on the African continent today, Werewere Liking is the Cameroonian founder of the.!
Werewere Liking
Werewere Liking | |
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Born | 1950 |
Nationality | Cameroonian |
Occupation(s) | stage performer, writer |
Awards | Prince Claus Award in 2000 |
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.
"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.[1] She is the author of the African feminist theory "misovirism."[2]
She received a Prince Claus Award in 2000 for her contributions to culture and society, and the Noma Award in 2005 for her bo