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Lionel Manga is a Cameroonian writer, critic, and curator. He was born in 1955 in Douala, Cameroon. He is best known for his work in the field of African literature and art. He has written several books, including “The African Imagination” and “The African Aesthetic”. He has also curated numerous exhibitions, including “The African Aesthetic” at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Manga has been a professor at the University of Yaoundé in Cameroon since 1985. He has also held visiting professorships at the University of Paris, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan. Manga is a member of the International Association of Art Critics and the International Association of Africanists. He is also a member of the International Association of Writers and Critics. Manga has received numerous awards and honors, including the Grand Prix Littéraire de l’Afrique Noire in 1988 and the Grand Prix Littéraire de l’Afrique Centrale in 1992. He was also awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2002.

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2008

Lionel Manga, born in Dschang, is a Cameroonian writer and cultural critic based in Douala. His 2008 book, L'Ivresse du Papillon, discusses Cameroonian visual artists such as Goddy Leye, Guy Wouété and Joseph-Francis Sumégné among others.

Regard sur le Cameroun contemporain. Ombres et lucioles dans le sillage des plasticiens was published in 2008 by the publishing house Edimontagne/Artistafrica.

2007

After studies in Cameroon and France, in December 2007 he collaborated with the French artist Philippe Mouillon and realized the work Bend Skins, a collection of life stories of 500 motorbike-taxi-drivers on the occasion of SUD Salon Urbain de Douala in December 2007. In 2015 he curated Presences an exhibition which focused on painting, sculpture and photography by Cameroonian artists at SCB in Douala and was featured in FACE-À-FACES, an exhibition profiling personalities from the cultural world in the salon prestige at Abidjan International Airport.

2005

Since 2005, he has published in various francophone journals: Afrique et Méditerrannée, Local Contemporain, Riveneuve Continents, Politique Africaine, Douala in translation. Passionate about a transversality that he uncoils in his articles and columns for the newspapers Mutations (2001- 2003), Le Messager (2006-2008), this free radical, known for his frankness and casual mischievousness, has collaborated with doual’art regarding the question of urbanity in Cameroon, for the Ars&Urbis discussion series. He was invited to speak at the Ex-tensions, créations africaines et postcolonialismes conference in Rennes in 2009. His first book L’Ivresse du papillon.