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Werewere Liking

1950 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Werewere Liking has received more than 25,571 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Werewere Liking is the 6,371st most popular writer (down from 5,881st in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Cameroon (down from 41st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Cameroonian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 26k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Marionnettes du Mali
Puppet theater, Puppets
1987
La puissance de Um
Cameroonian drama (French), History and criticism
1979
Statues colons
Colonial agents in art, Figurines, Polychromy
1987
The Amputated Memory
Memory, Fiction, Social conditions
2007
African Ritual Theatre
Drama (dramatic works by one author)
1997
It shall be of jasper and coral
Fiction, general, Africa, fiction
2000
Statuettes peintes d'Afrique de l'Ouest
Ivoirian Wood sculpture, African Wood sculpture, Polychromy
2003
Een liefde van honderd levens
Een jonge Afrikaan probeert temidden van turbulente hedendaagse ontwikkelingen de Afrikaanse identiteit te hervinden in de oude mythologie.
1999
The Amputated Memory
Memory, Fiction, Social conditions
2007
La puissance de Um
Cameroonian drama (French), History and criticism
1979
African Ritual Theatre
Drama (dramatic works by one author)
The two plays translated here by a team of Cameroonian scholars form part of the vast ritual repertoire which has secured Werewere Liking a place of honor in Cameroon stage, indeed even in the African theatrical scene. The plays re-enact rituals emerging from the grassroots lore of tropical Africa, raise fundamental issues for the benefit of contemporary African audiences, and derive their compelling power from traditional theatrical aesthetics. Liking's dramatic art synthetically harmonizes the elements which characterize the present socio-political and cultural situation in Cameroon and, by extension, in Africa. Through her ritual matrix she focuses on the country's/continent's past without extolling it and at the same time she succeeds in penetrating the whole fabric of contemporary society in order to criticize it. This possibility of her ritual plays to shift from one level to the other, from rituals to topical issues without seeming didactic, gives it a sophistication and an overwhelming impact that one hardly finds in realistic drama so prevalent in Francophone Africa. This mighty statement by one of the most innovative African woman dramatists to date makes The Power of Um and A New Earth, two of her earliest plays translated here into English, a must-reading for Anglo-American scholars and students of African literature.
1997
It shall be of jasper and coral
Fiction, general, Africa, fiction
2000

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Werewere Liking ranks 6,371 out of 7,302. Before her are Christian Prudhomme, Michael Rosen, Henry Green, Laurent Binet, S. E. Hinton, and Joel Osteen. After her are Richard Price, Jodi Picoult, Ludwig Bemelmans, Christopher Fry, Thomas Lodge, and Terence MacSwiney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Werewere Liking ranks 630. Before her are David Johansen, Jack Layton, Bob Burns, Kabasu Babo, Andy Powell, and Maria Ewing. After her are Kenzo Suzuki, Laura Kelly, Phil Dent, Jurelang Zedkaia, Volker Fischer, and Themba Dlamini.

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In Cameroon

Among people born in Cameroon, Werewere Liking ranks 43 out of 156. Before her are Jean-Alain Boumsong (1979), Stephen Tataw (1963), Achille Emaná (1982), Pierre Womé (1979), Lauren (1977), and Joel Embiid (1994). After her are Ephrem M'Bom (1954), Louis-Paul M'Fédé (1961), Eric Djemba-Djemba (1981), André Kana-Biyik (1965), Breel Embolo (1997), and André-Frank Zambo Anguissa (1995).

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Among WRITERS In Cameroon

Among writers born in Cameroon, Werewere Liking ranks 3. Before her are Mongo Beti (1932), and Francis Bebey (1929). After her are Calixthe Beyala (1961), Léonora Miano (1973), and Djaili Amadou Amal (1975).

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