Sony Lab'Ou Tansi
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Name (Latin)
Sony Lab'Ou Tansi
Other forms of name
Lab'Ou Tansi, Sony
Sony, Labou Tansi
Sony, Marcel
Tansi, M. S. L. (Marcel Sony Labou)
Tansi, Marcel Sony Labou
Tansi, Sony Lab'Ou
Tsoni, Marcel
Date of birth
1947-06-05
Date of death
1995-06-14
Associated country
Congo (Brazzaville)
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Occupation
Dramatists
English teachers
Novelists
Poets
Associated Language
fre
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Africultures website, viewed May 29, 2015(Sony LABOU TANSI; République du Congo; born Marcel Ntsoni; Congolese novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and poet; b. July 5, 1947 (or, June 5, 1947) in Kimwanza (Kimwaanza), just south of Kinshasa; originally educated in Kikongo, began speaking French at age 12 when his family moved to Congo-Brazzaville; in 1971 adopted pen name "Sony La'bou Tansi" as a tribute to Tchicaya U Tam'si; former English professor at Collège Tchicaya-Pierre in Pointe-Noire, from 1979 seen as a leader of a new generation of francophone African authors, for his novels and theater; he founded (1979) and directed Rocado Zulu Théâtre in Brazzaville, which toured internationally; later served as administrator in several ministries in Brazzaville; cofounded the Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development (MCDD), a political party opposed to Pres. Denis Sassou Nguesso and his Congolese Labour Party)
- New York Times, M.S.L. Tansi, 48, Congo novelist known for bitter colonial satire, June 16, 1995, viewed online May 29, 2015(Marcel Sony Labou Tansi; Mr. Tansi; d. Wednesday [June 14] in Foufoundou, a remote village in the Congo countryside where he had gone for treatment of AIDS)
- His Conscience de tracteur, 1979:t.p. (SONY Lab'Ou Tansi) p. 4 of cover (SONY Lab'ou Tansi, b. 1950 in Congo)
- His La vie et demie, 1979:t.p. (Sony Labou Tansi) p. 4 of cover (b. 6/5/47 in Brazzaville)
- Mérand, P. Guide de la litt. africaine de langue fran., c1979(SONY Lab'ou Tansi; from Congo)
- Afrikanische Schriftsteller im Gespräch, 1983:p. 119 (Sony, Labou Tansi)
- 'Den Kongo schreiben', 2000:t.p. (Sony Labou Tansi) p. 61 (b. as Sony Marcel, July 3, 1947, in the Belgian Congo) p. 74 (d. June 14, 1995)