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The Most Famous

WRITERS from Cameroon

This page contains a list of the greatest Cameroonian Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 5,755 Writers, 5 of which were born in Cameroon. This makes Cameroon the birth place of the 84th most number of Writers behind North Korea and Haiti.

Top 5

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Cameroonian Writers of all time. This list of famous Cameroonian Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Mongo Beti (1932 - 2001)

With an HPI of 48.16, Mongo Beti is the most famous Cameroonian Writer. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.

Alexandre Biyidi Awala (30 June 1932 – 8 October 2001), known as Mongo Beti or Eza Boto, was a Cameroonian writer. Beti spent much of his life in France, studying at the Sorbonne and becoming a professor at Lycée Pierre Corneille.

2. Francis Bebey (1929 - 2001)

With an HPI of 45.72, Francis Bebey is the 2nd most famous Cameroonian Writer. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Francis Bebey (French: [bəbɛ], 15 July 1929 in Douala, Cameroon – 28 May 2001 in Paris, France) was a Cameroonian musicologist, writer, composer, and broadcaster.

3. Werewere Liking (1950 - )

With an HPI of 38.94, Werewere Liking is the 3rd most famous Cameroonian Writer. Her biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Werewere Liking (born 1950, in Cameroon) is a writer, playwright and performer based in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. She established the Ki-Yi Mbock theatre troupe in 1980 and founded the Ki-Yi village in 1985 for the artistic education of young people. Her novel Elle sera de jaspe et de corail is a song-novel recounted by an astute misovire (literally 'man-hater' from misos Gr. "hate" and vir Lat. "man") in writing a journal on nine themes as a dialectic between two men wherein the author of the journal imagines a new race of people uninhibited by the historical baggage of patriarchy and colonialism. She is the author of the African feminist theory "misovirism." She received a Prince Claus Award in 2000 for her contributions to culture and society, and the Noma Award in 2005 for her book La mémoire amputée.

Pantheon has 5 people classified as writers born between 1929 and 1973. Of these 5, 3 (60.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living writers include Werewere Liking, Calixthe Beyala, and Léonora Miano. The most famous deceased writers include Mongo Beti and Francis Bebey. As of April 2022, 3 new writers have been added to Pantheon including Francis Bebey, Werewere Liking, and Calixthe Beyala.