Tsira Ndong Ndoutoume

Philippe Ndong Ndoutoume, known as Tsira, was born on 14 September 1928 in Engongome, near Oyem, in Woleu-Ntem. A schoolteacher in Oyem, he was initiated into the art of the mvett by several masters, among them Zue Nguema, and played it from 1948. In 1961 he took part in a first bilingual edition of the mvett, with the ethnomusicologist Herbert Pepper. He sided with the authors of the coup d'état of February 1964, which led to his arrest and conviction. He died on 28 August 2005.

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• EpicLe MvettTsira Ndong Ndoutoume · 1970not translated into EnglishLiterature