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 book La mémoire amputée.[3]
^Mielle, Michael (2000). "Werewere Liking and Aesthetics of Necessity". Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English.
^Zabus, Chantal J. (2013). Out in Africa: Same-sex Desire in Sub-Saharan Literatures & Cultures. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 148. ISBN 978-1-84701-082-7.
^"Noma Award 2005". Archived from the original on 2007-03-04. Retrieved 2007-03-01.
WerewereLiking (born 1950, in Cameroon) is a writer, playwright and performer based in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. She established the Ki-Yi Mbock theatre...
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playwright[Jahn] Gauz (author name of Patrick Armand-Gbaka Brede, b. 1971) Werewere-Liking Gnepo (b. 1950), also connected with Cameroon, writer, playwright and...
1965), children's writer Adjoua Flore Kouamé (born 1964), novelist WerewereLiking (born 1950), Cameroon-born novelist, playwright Aké Loba (1927–2012)...
Festival for women voices, MASSAO 2005) in Douala from 29 April to 7 May. WerewereLiking, Cameroonian multidisciplinary artist (music, theatre, literature,...
Award. Born in Côte d'Ivoire, Kouakou began under the mentorship of WerewereLiking in the village of Ki Yi M'Bock in Abidjan, where he was introduced...
by Adeboye Babalola & Olugboyega Alaba 2005: La mémoire amputée by WerewereLiking 2006: In a Ribbon of Rhythm by Lebogang Mashile 2007: Strife by Shimmer...
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