Bernard Nanga

Bernard Nanga was born on 3 May 1934 in Mbankomo, near Obala, the second of four boys; his father died in 1940 and his mother raised her children alone. After passing through the seminaries and being ordained a priest, he returned to lay life, studied philosophy and sociology in Strasbourg from 1962 to 1970, taught in a lycée, then in 1975 joined the philosophy department of the University of Yaoundé. He wrote a comedy performed in Douala in 1973 and poems. He died in Yaoundé on 13 March 1985, with his doctoral thesis on the Vienna Circle almost finished; a second novel received the Noma Prize posthumously.

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• NovelLes Chauves-sourisBernard Nanga · 1980not translated into EnglishLiterature