Samuel-Martin Eno Belinga

Samuel-Martin Eno Belinga was born in 1935 in Ebolowa. Trained in Yaoundé and Strasbourg, a doctor in applied geology, he defended in 1972 a doctoral thesis on the bauxitisation of the basaltic rocks of the Adamawa, taught the sciences and directed the annals of the faculty of sciences of Yaoundé. He devoted another part of his life to the oral traditions of the south of the country: from 1965 he studied the popular music and literatures of black Africa, collected the chantefables of the Beti, the Bulu and the Fang, and in 1978 edited a mvet epic. He died in Yaoundé in 2004.

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• PoetryLa Prophétie de JoalSamuel-Martin Eno Belinga · 1970not translated into EnglishLiterature