Mongo Beti

Cameroonian writer · Cameroon · On the map · Writers · Lived 1932 to 2001 · aged 69

Alexandre Biyidi Awala, known as Mongo Beti or Eza Boto, was a Cameroonian author and polemicist. Beti has been called one of the most perceptive French-African writers in his presentations of African life.

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