Jeanne Ngo Mai
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Jeanne Ngo Mai (1933 – 2008) was a Cameroonian writer writing in French.[1]
She was born in Poutchack near Ngambé and was educated in Sackbayeme, in Yaoundé and in Toulouse, France, where she received a degree in pharmacy. Ngo Mai returned to Cameroon in 1962, working as chief pharmacist in the hospital at Yaoundé. She opened her own pharmacy in 1963, operating it until 1993.[1]
Many of her poems appeared in the publication Le Cameroun littéraire. In 1967, she published the collection of poems Poèmes sauvages et lamentations.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Jeanne Ngo Mai". Women Writers and African literatures. University of Western Australia.
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- 1933 births
- 2008 deaths
- Cameroonian poets
- French-language poets
- 20th-century poets
- All stub articles
- Cameroonian people stubs
- Central African writer stubs