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Ndouna Dépénaud

Died in 1977

Dieudonné Pascal Ndouna Okogo, who signed Ndouna Dépénaud, was born on 7 July 1937 in Akiéni, in the Haut-Ogooué. A teacher, he was also a diplomat, while writing poetry and drama; his papers held, according to Gabon Media Time, a novel, a play and a collection of tales and proverbs that remained unpublished. He died on 19 July 1977 in Libreville, in circumstances never cleared up, two years after the publication of his second collection.

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