Theatre
La Mort de Guykafi
Not translated into English
Vincent de Paul Nyonda · 1981
Synopsis
A drama in five acts drawn from legend, centred on Guykafi, whom the play presents as the “warrior of warriors” and in whom the author embodies African values that he holds to be timeless. The available presentations of the play go no further: they detail neither the plot nor the other characters, and only the title announces the hero's fate.
Context
The play was published in 1981 in Paris by L'Harmattan, in the Encres noires series, with Deux albinos à la M'Passa and Le Soûlard: it is the second of the author's two trilogies, after that of 1979. According to the publisher's presentation, the volume moves from legend to social comedy and historical drama, with a debauched anti-hero who repents and the figure of Brazza, promoter of colonisation. A digital edition made it available again in 2010.
Who it is for
A play in five acts, in French, published with two others in a volume of 199 pages.
Prizes and reception
Performed in Dakar in 1966, at the first Festival of Negro Arts, according to Jean René Ovono Mendame; Sima Eyi regards its author as the pioneer of modern theatre in Gabon.
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