Guillaume Oyônô Mbia

Guillaume Oyônô Mbia was born on March 2, 1939, in the forest village of Mvoutessi. While still a secondary student at the Collège Évangélique de Libamba, Oyônô Mbia wrote Trois Prétendants... un mari in 1960, capturing the hilarious generational clash between traditional bride-price greed and modern youth love.

Studying modern languages at Keele University in England, Oyônô Mbia served as Professor of English Literature at the University of Yaoundé. His satirical plays, including Until Further Notice and Notre Fille ne se mariera pas, explored the hypocrisies of the emergent urban African bourgeois elite with infectious comedic wit and theatrical perfection.