Author · Cameroon
Élolongué Epanya Yondo
Died in 1998
Élolongué Epanya Yondo was born in Cameroon in 1930. He lived in Paris, far from his country, and was active in the Union des populations du Cameroun, the party of the struggle for emancipation, achieved in 1960. A relative of the poet David Diop, he wrote in French and in Duala, his mother tongue, and the scholar Sara Svolacchia ranks him among the major figures of Cameroonian poetry of the fifties. He died in 1998, at the age of sixty-eight.
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- PoetryKamerun! Kamerun!Élolongué Epanya Yondo · 1960not translated into EnglishLiterature