Georges Rawiri

Georges Rawiri was born on 10 March 1932 in western Gabon, in the village of Ntyatanga, in the Ogooué-Aval. Close to Omar Bongo from the time he came to power, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1971 to 1974, then first Deputy Prime Minister, and presided over the Senate from its creation, in 1997, until his death. A poet in his spare time, he was the father of the country's first woman novelist. He died on 9 April 2006 in Paris and is buried in a mausoleum in Lambaréné.

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• PoetryChants du GabonGeorges Rawiri · 1975not translated into EnglishLiterature