Fidèle AFANOU EDEMBE
Tel : +241 62 36 98 80
Email : fideleafanou@gmail.com
Biography :
Né à Port-Gentil (Gabon), le 28 janvier 1953, Fidèle Afanou Edémbé y a fait ses études primaires et secondaires avant de se rendre en France pour ses études supérieures. Informaticien, musicien, journaliste, il a été révélé comme écrivain par le Grand Concours BICIG Amie des Arts et des Lettres (plusieurs fois lauréat dans le genre de la nouvelle). Après une participation à « Entre nous », un recueil collectif de nouvelles d’auteurs gabonais (Editions La Doxa) ayant obtenu, en 2016, le prix national Gabon de la Journée du Manuscrit Francophone, il a publié, en 2017, « Les locataires de Dieu » (Les Editions du Net), un recueil de nouvelles, et en 2018, « Pierre Akendengué, un chant dans la nuit » (Editions du Net), un récit biographique du célèbre artiste gabonais. Retraité, il partage son temps entre le management des organisations, l’écriture et une collaboration au Quotidien national gabonais L’Union.
Is it pure coincidence? A coincidence ? A deliberate choice? There are twenty-two of them, the equivalent of two football teams, who have united their destiny, not to discuss a match but to discuss the incalculable number of injustices of all kinds on which, every day, we close the doors. eyes or that we brush aside with the back of our hand.
It seems that in slang, “22!” » means “Attention!” or something close to it.
Is it pure coincidence? A coincidence ? A deliberate choice? There are a majority of women (18) for a few men (4). The match seems unbalanced; unless the referee... It is undoubtedly the spirit of the times, with all the conventional speeches that we hear on equality, perhaps of the sexes, in any case of the genders, to stick to the new paradigm of global solidarity movement HeForShe launched in 2014 by Emma Watson, this British actress and UN Women goodwill ambassador. Unless the fairer sex is more sensitive or more aware of inequalities, injustices, violations, rapes and other violence generally committed by other people.
In any case, these authors (should I write authors?) have given us 27 pearls of literature that can be read like a rosary. 27 slices of life, each of which strangely resembles a fact that we have already been told, that we have heard about, that we have listened to on the radio or on TV. Perhaps we read it in our usual daily lives. Or, quite simply, experienced live, as we say today. Yes, these stories are not to be trifled with. The fact that they are presented to us from the pen of novelists is only circumstantial. Any resemblance to people or facts that exist or have existed must be assumed. Isn't it true that we don't believe the woman who comes to file a complaint for, she says, having been raped by her boyfriend? Come on! And how many times have we seen someone cry heartily over the loss of a father, before learning from their own mother that the one for whom they are lamenting was not their true father, and that the author of his coming into the world is still in this world (if I may say so). Ugh! And who has not seen someone allow themselves to be accused of a wrongdoing that they did not commit and apologize for it to cover up the real perpetrator who is a brother or sister? Eh yes ! Any resemblance to people or facts that exist or have existed must be assumed.
" So what ? Boupendza was not offside! What has changed? The whole world saw it, yet the whole world turned a blind eye and injustice was socialized.” (4th cover).
In other words, move on! Nothing to see. The Earth continues to spin and the show must go on.
To read without moderation.
Boupendza was not offside And other equally important news
Symphonia Editions, June 2022, 315 pages
Read by Fidèle AFANOU EDEMBE