Sony Labou Tansi

Marcel Ntsoni was born in 1947 at Kimwenza, near Léopoldville, to a father from Kinshasa and a mother from Brazzaville. Trained at the École normale supérieure d'Afrique centrale, he taught French and English from 1971 in Congo-Brazzaville, where he always lived. Awarded three times at the RFI theatre competition from 1973, he directed the Rocado Zulu Théâtre and in 1983 received the grand prix littéraire de l'Afrique noire. Elected deputy for Makélékélé in 1992, deprived of his passport in 1994 for his opposition to President Lissouba, he died in Brazzaville on 14 June 1995.

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• NovelLife and a HalfLa Vie et demieSony Labou Tansi · 1979Literature