René Philombe

Philippe-Louis Ombédé, who wrote as René Philombe, was born in 1930 in Ngaoundéré. He joined the police around 1950, graduated in 1952 from the first class of the police school in Yaoundé, was a secret member of the Union des populations du Cameroun and launched a newspaper in French and another in Ewondo. In 1960 he co-founded the Association of Cameroonian Poets and Writers, of which he remained secretary general until 1981, and he was imprisoned several times. He later ran Semences africaines in Yaoundé, which published his books. He died in that city on 25 October 2001.

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• NovelUn sorcier blanc à ZangaliRené Philombe · 1969not translated into EnglishLiterature