Kamanda, Kama
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- Monsieur Mandela, 2013:page 131 (Kama Sywor KAMANDA; degrees from the école de journalisme de Kinshasa (1969), in political science (1973) and in philosophy (1975) from the Université de Kinshasa, and in law from the Université de Liège (1981); author of poetry, stories and novels)
- Wikipedia, Dec. 11, 2017(Kama Sywor Kamanda; KAMANDA Kama Sywor; novelist, playwright, storyteller and poet, Democratic Republic of the Congo; father Malaba Kamenga, mother Kony Ngalula; forced to leave the Congo in 1977 due to his political activities; lived in various European countries before settling in Luxembourg; in 1985 Kamanda was founding president of the African Association of Writers, of which L. S. Senghor was honorary president)
- His Les contes des veillées africaines, 1985:t.p. (Kama Kamanda) flap (b. Luebo, Zaire; studied law, pol. sci.; lives in Belgium)
- Kama Kamanda, poète de l'exile, c1994:t.p. (Kama Kamanda) p. 151 (b. 11-11-52 à Luebo Zaïre))
- Chants de brumes, 2002:t.p. (Kama Sywor Kamanda) p. 4 of cover (b. 1952 in Luebo; lives in Belgium) p. [7] (author of Les contes des veillées africaines, which is tome III of Les contes du Griot)
Wikipedia description:
Kama Sywor Kamanda(11 November 1952, Congo) is a Congolese French-speaking writer, poet, novelist, playwright, speaker, essayist and storyteller from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is also a committed intellectual who contributes to the evolution of ideas and the history of Africa. He was born in Luebo in the province of Kasaï Occidental in Congo-Kinshasa on 11 November 1952. His first publication, Les Contes des veillées africaines was an immediate success. From the beginning of his career, his literary work has stood out due to its originality, its unique style and its themes. As per literary critics: Kamanda owes much of his world renown as a writer to his "Kamanda Tales", as they should be called for their evocative power and literary quality, which rank this African writer among the greatest classic authors such as Andersen, Grimm, Perrault and Maupassant. Kama Sywor Kamanda is considered as the Africa's greatest storyteller.
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