Jean-Pierre Makouta-Mboukou | |
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Deputy and minister plenipotentiary | |
In office 1963–1968 | |
Senator | |
In office 1992–1997 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Kindamba | 17 July 1929
Died | 9 October 2012 Pontoise | (aged 83)
Nationality | Republic of the Congo |
Occupation | Politician, writer |
Jean-Pierre Makouta-Mboukou (17 July 1929 – 9 October 2012) was a Congolese politician, academic, novelist and playwright. [1] [2] [3] For his abundant and eclectic work his biographers have called him the “Congolese Victor Hugo” and the “baobab of Congolese literature”. [4] [5]
Jean-Pierre Makouta-Mboukou was born on 17 July 1929 in Kindamba in the Pool department of the Republic of the Congo. He held several doctorates, and taught French and African linguistics and literature in several universities, including the Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3 for 22 years, but also in Ouagadougou, Abidjan, Dakar and Brazzaville. [3]
He was strongly involved in politics, and was a deputy and minister plenipotentiary (1963–1968). [6] After the 1968 coup d'état, he was stripped of Congolese nationality and naturalized as French. He was rehabilitated and regained Congolese nationality in 1991 and joined the Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development (MCDDI). [3] He was a senator (1992–1997) and second vice-president of the Senate. He retired from political life after the civil war of 1997. [7] He died on 9 October 2012 at Pontoise hospital in Val-d'Oise, France.
Jean-Pierre Makouta-Mboukou was the author of about 25 books in a wide range of genres and about fifty articles published in various foreign journals. [3]
Jean-Pierre Makouta-Mboukou was a member of the French Académie des sciences d'outre-mer and the International Council of the French Language ( Conseil international de la langue française).
In 1985 he received the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire for his Introduction to the Study of the French-language Negro-African Novel and the Main Features of Negro-African Poetry. [8] In 1994 he received the Aimé Césaire Literary Prize. [3]
Jean-Pierre Makouta-Mboukou | |
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Deputy and minister plenipotentiary | |
In office 1963–1968 | |
Senator | |
In office 1992–1997 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Kindamba | 17 July 1929
Died | 9 October 2012 Pontoise | (aged 83)
Nationality | Republic of the Congo |
Occupation | Politician, writer |
Jean-Pierre Makouta-Mboukou (17 July 1929 – 9 October 2012) was a Congolese politician, academic, novelist and playwright. [1] [2] [3] For his abundant and eclectic work his biographers have called him the “Congolese Victor Hugo” and the “baobab of Congolese literature”. [4] [5]
Jean-Pierre Makouta-Mboukou was born on 17 July 1929 in Kindamba in the Pool department of the Republic of the Congo. He held several doctorates, and taught French and African linguistics and literature in several universities, including the Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3 for 22 years, but also in Ouagadougou, Abidjan, Dakar and Brazzaville. [3]
He was strongly involved in politics, and was a deputy and minister plenipotentiary (1963–1968). [6] After the 1968 coup d'état, he was stripped of Congolese nationality and naturalized as French. He was rehabilitated and regained Congolese nationality in 1991 and joined the Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development (MCDDI). [3] He was a senator (1992–1997) and second vice-president of the Senate. He retired from political life after the civil war of 1997. [7] He died on 9 October 2012 at Pontoise hospital in Val-d'Oise, France.
Jean-Pierre Makouta-Mboukou was the author of about 25 books in a wide range of genres and about fifty articles published in various foreign journals. [3]
Jean-Pierre Makouta-Mboukou was a member of the French Académie des sciences d'outre-mer and the International Council of the French Language ( Conseil international de la langue française).
In 1985 he received the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire for his Introduction to the Study of the French-language Negro-African Novel and the Main Features of Negro-African Poetry. [8] In 1994 he received the Aimé Césaire Literary Prize. [3]