Werewere Liking
Werewere Liking is a writer, playwright and performer based in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. She established the Ki-Yi Mbock theatre troupe in 1980 and founded the Ki-Yi village in 1985 for the artistic education of young people.
Her novel Elle sera de jaspe et de corail is a song-novel recounted by an astute misovire in writing a journal on nine themes as a dialectic between two men wherein the author of the journal imagines a new race of people uninhibited by the historical baggage of patriarchy and colonialism. She is the author of the African feminist theory "misovirism."
She received a Prince Claus Award in 2000 for her contributions to culture and society, and the Noma Award in 2005 for her book La mémoire amputée.
Writing
Her books and plays include:- La mémoire amputée, Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes,
- Elle sera de jaspe et de corail, Editions L'Harmattan, - trans. Marjolijn De Jager, It shall be of jasper and coral; and, Love-across-a-hundred-lives, University Press of Virginia,
- La puissance de Um and Une nouvelle terre - trans. Jeanne Dingome, African Ritual Theatre: The Power of Um and a New Earth, International Scholars Pubs.,