• Awala (30 June 1932 – 8 October 2001), known as Mongo Beti or Eza Boto, was a Cameroonian writer. Beti spent much of his life in France, studying at the...
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  • Cuban jazz/salsa percussionist Mongo Beti (1932–2001), pen name of Cameroonian writer Alexandre Biyidi Awala "Mongo", family nickname for Ramón Castro...
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  • The Poor Christ of Bomba is a satirical novel by Mongo Beti. It was published in 1956 as Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba. Set in the 1930s, the story is narrated...
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  • Mission to Kala is a novel written by the Cameroonian author Mongo Beti. It was first published as Mission terminée in French in 1957 and then translated...
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    bring Cameroon into the modern world. After World War II, writers such as Mongo Beti and Ferdinand Oyono analysed and criticised colonialism and rejected assimilation...
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  • Look up beti in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Beti may refer to: Mongo Beti (1932–2001), Cameroonian writer Beti George (born 1939), Welsh television...
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    gather and give away their wealth to the poorer families. Mongo Beti, a descendant of the Beti people, among the most well known Cameroon novelists Anthony...
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  • was published in Cameroon in January/February 1978. It was created by Mongo Beti and his spouse Odile Tobner, who fought for human rights for political...
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  • Ishmael Beah (Sierra Leone): A Long Way Gone (2007), Radiance of Tomorrow Mongo Beti (Cameroon): Poor Christ of Bomba (1956 as Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba) André...
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  • neo-colonialism on African political behavior. New York: Vantage Press. Mongo Beti, Main basse sur le Cameroun. Autopsie d'une décolonisation (1972), new...
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    and the troops of Cameroon and France. Despite the efforts of writer Mongo Beti, the war and the brutal methods employed by the French government has...
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  • Thomas Berger Henri Bergson Thomas Bernhard John Berryman Alfred Bester Mongo Beti Doris Betts Hayim Nahman Bialik Elizabeth Biddulph, Baroness Biddulph...
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    in service under Georges Pompidou's presidency (1969–1974). In 1972, Mongo Beti's Cruel hand on Cameroon, autopsy of a decolonization was censored upon...
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  • Française for all of his work. In 1993, he was the first, along with Mongo Beti, to receive the Fonlon-Nichols Prize from the African Literature Association...
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    the Bulu language as early as 1932. After World War II, writers such as Mongo Beti and Ferdinand Oyono analysed and criticised colonialism and rejected assimilation...
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  • Mallet-Joris (1930–2016) Jacques Ehrmann (1931–1972) Fernando Arrabal (1932–...) Mongo Beti (1932–2001) Hédi Bouraoui (1932–...) Claude Pujade-Renaud (1932–...) Jacques...
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  • au Senegal. In: Africa Development, vol. 35, no. 4 (2010), p. 237-260) Mongo Beti, L'ETRANGE BIENNALE DE DAKAR... LETTRE OUVERTE A MONSIEUR LE MINISTRE...
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    Bernard Pottier [fr] Jacques Bouteloup [fr] Gérard Simon [fr] (1964–1988) Mongo Beti (1966–1994) List of Jesuit sites Académie de Rouen[permanent dead link]...
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  • Francophone African writers of the 20th century, including the literature of Mongo Beti, Ken Bugul, Birago Diop, Djibril Tamsir Niane, Williams Sassine, Ousmane...
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  • poet and short story writer[Jahn] Bate Besong (1954–2007), poet[Gikandi] Mongo Beti, pseudonym of Alexandre Biyidi Awala (1932–2001), novelist writing in...
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  • Polly Rowles, 87, American actress (The Defenders, Sweet Liberty, Power). Mongo Beti, 69, Cameroonian writer. Alfred Fyodorov, 66, Soviet football player and...
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  • Cameroon Philip Begho (born 1956), Nigeria Sokhna Benga (born 1967), Senegal Mongo Beti (1932–2001), Cameroon Calixthe Beyala (born 1961), Cameroon Olympe Bhêly-Quénum...
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  • Bethlen (1700–1759, Hungary, nf) Adrien Bertrand (1888–1917, France, f) Mongo Beti (1932–2001, Cameroon, f/nf), pseudonym of Alexandre Biyidi Awala John...
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  • (1949–1998) Marie-Thérèse Assiga Ahanda (c.1941–2014) Francis Bebey (1929–2001) Mongo Beti, pseudonym of Alexandre Biyidi Awala (1932–2001) Calixthe Beyala (born...
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  • translations began to be made from French of works by Ferdinand Oyono, Mongo Beti and others. This was followed by translations from Portuguese, Zulu, Swahili...
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  • Library for Africa). As translator: Beti, Mongo. The Poor Christ of Bomba. Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland, 2005. Beti, Mongo. Remember Ruben. Heinemann, London...
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  • writer and editor Léon de Berluc-Pérussis – French poet and historian Mongo Beti – Cameroonian writer Beverley Bie Brahic – American poet and translator...
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  • testament) 1957: Emil Cioran for La tentation d'exister (refused) 1958: Mongo Beti for Mission Terminée 1958: Jean Cathelin for Marcel Aymé ou le paysan...
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  • the Nile 2003 Sarah Stone United States Burundi Mission to Kala 1957 Mongo Beti Cameroon Cameroon The Fortunate Isles 1989 Basil Davidson United Kingdom...
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  • Cola Cola jazz 2004: Sami Tchak (Togo) for Littérature et engagement: Mongo Beti, un écrivain conscient de son devoir envers son peuple? and Togoo: la...
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