Werewere Liking: a great lady of the living arts and letters
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Werewere Liking, the founder of the pan-African, artistic and united village Ki Yi M'Bock, and Dobet Gnahoré, who grew up there: two generations of world music singers.
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By: Sayouba Traoré
Werewere-Liking Gnepo, actress, novelist, writer, was born in 1950 in Bondè, Cameroon.
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She was raised by her paternal grandparents in a traditional environment.
She has lived in Côte d'Ivoire since 1978, when she began researching Negro-African traditions and aesthetics at the university.
She is the founder of the Ki Yi M'Bock group, a theater company based in Abidjan.
Werewere Liking is a prolific author who has touched on all genres;
however, it is undoubtedly for her theater and her work within the community of Village Ki-Yi that she has forged an international reputation.
For many readers and listeners, she will remain the author of the book
La Mémoire Amputée
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Finding a poetic and aesthetic language in balance between traditional values and fighting against all the systems that bring man in Africa is a constant concern that has guided the work of Werewere Liking.
(Replay of August 11, 2017)
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