Kama Sywor Kamanda

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Full Name	Kama Sywor Kamanda
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Nov 11, 1952(1952-11-11)
Age	72
Birthplace	Lubao, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Country	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Birth City	Lomami
Horoscope	Scorpio

Kama Sywor Kamanda Biography

Kama Sywor Kamanda is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on November 11, 1952 in Lubao, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lomami, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kamanda Kama Sywor writer, poet novelist, essayist, playwright, and storyteller was born on the 11th of November 1952 in Luebo, Democratic Republic of Congo born to her father Malaba Kamenga and mother Kony Ngalula. His political views of the country led him to move out of Africa and move to an exile within Europe. But, he remains an outstanding leader of opinion throughout the world. His writings are infused with his passion for liberty and democratic justice in the United States. Kamanda wrote a variety of poems, dramas novels, essays, novels and fairy stories. Kamanda is a famous writer from Europe Africa, Asia, and America. A lot of students around the world are studying his works. He has won numerous literary prizes such as the Heredia prize awarded by the Academie Francaise. It is said that he could be an aspiring Nobel Prize laureate in Literature.

The year 1985 was the time that Kamanda served as the president-elect of the African Association of Writers, of which L. S. Senghor was the honorary president. As a storyteller, poet and novelist, she later published a huge amount of writing, which included the publication of a dozen poetry anthologies and stories, a few hundred of them and several novels.

Playwright: Kamanda surprises by the originality of his theatrical themes and by his erudition. His knowledge of today’s Africa and that of yesteryear is indisputable. He shares with his audiences a broad swathe of African memory, for which he is the recognized spokesman, if not the guardian. His theatre is inspired by Africa past and present. Ancient Egypt finds a new literary existence through his playwriting skills. The Pharaohs and Queens of ancient Egypt finally have a new literary life and an author who pays them a long- awaited tribute hoped for a thousand times over. Literary recognition of the great African rulers, to which they were entitled, but which no one hitherto had dreamed of legitimizing. Ramsès II, Candace 1ère, and Toutankhamon are Kama Sywor Kamanda plays that testify to Africa’s contribution to universal civilization. Kamanda is not bound by his native Africa; he travels the world and carries us with him through his imagination, poetry and love of peoples and cultures of the world. Thus he invites us to discover Japan and all its traditions in On peut s’aimer sans se comprendre.

Storyteller. He is known for his literary tales which are inspired by his personal experiences, his imagination and the traditions and realities of the African continent. Kamanda’s tales are enchanting stories imbued with the culture and civilization of all African lands. His literary genius has been universally recognized in his lifetime. Due to the originality of the form and the substance of his writings, it is difficult to categorize it in a literary movement. Poet. Kamanda has breathed new life back into contemporary poetry and restored its grandeur, thanks to the wealth of his language and mastery of metaphor. Critics and some of the greatest poets of his time, including Mario Luzi and Léopold Sédar Senghor, have emphasised the power of his verses and the richness of his imagery. According to the Bulletin Critique du Livre Français (BCLF, No. 529, entry 150655, Jan. 1990): “The poetic cry of Kamanda touches us and overwhelms us all the more because it is truly poetic.The suffering of uprooted lives and dualisms, the quest for love and hope. Elegiac poetry where the plaint takes speech as a fertile source, to speak of the dry land, the indifference of the other, the dead end. But the most heartbreaking cries right through this African tradition take on the warm bright colors of childhood, of a past the exiled poet finds within himself. The jasmine, the wisteria, these “sweet children like the blackness of the ebony”, explode with a savour for which we were unable to be guardians or lovers. The poet’s struggle is so fundamental, the choice of his words so evident that they rank him among the greatest chanters of misery and compassion. Violent like Hugo, able to use litanies like Peguy, as lyrical as Eluard. His work takes on all forms of the universal clamor which, from the beginning to the end of time, talks continuously to the attentive ear.” Kamanda has received many awards, including, in 2009, the French Academy’s Prix Heredia for Œuvre poétique : édition intégrale i.e., the complete edition of his poetic works.

After publishing his first collection of short stories at age 15 Kamanda was a student of literature as well as journalism and political science. He also studied philosophy, philosophy, as well as law. He then was a journalist. The year 1970 was the time he took part in the founding of the Union of Congolese Writers (Union des ecrivains congolais). He was forced to leave Congo in 1977, Kamanda was forced to leave Congo in 1977 because of his political involvement Kamanda travelled through a variety of European countries before arriving in Luxembourg.

Kama Sywor Kamanda Net Worth

Kama Sywor Kamanda is one of the richest Poet from Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kama Sywor Kamanda 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kama Sywor KAMANDA is a prestigious winner of numerous awards. He is a Congolese and Luxembourgish french-speaking writer, poet novelist, playwright, writer, speaker and storyteller who hails from his native country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is also an avid scholar who is a part of the advancement of ideas as well as the development of Africa. His birthplace was Luebo located in Kasai Occidental in Congo-Kinshasa on 11 November 1952. His first book Les Contes des sailles africaines was a huge success immediately. Since the start in his professional career, Kamanda’s writing was distinguished by its originality, distinctive style, and the themes. According to the literary reviewers: Kamanda owes much of his fame as an author in part to”Kamanda Tales,” his “Kamanda Tales”, as they are renowned for their emotional force and literary excellence that rank the African writer in the top tier of classic writers like Andersen, Grimm, Perrault and Maupassant. Kama Sywor Kamanda is often regarded as African’s most famous storytelling artist.

Through his storytelling Kamanda has been able to blend personal experiences traditions, imagination and tradition. This isn’t an assortment of stories it is a literary work that is its own thing that is influenced by folk tales as well as local myths. Writer, storyteller, poet as well as a novelist Kamanda is the author of a large and internationally acknowledged literary masterpiece. Since the release of his debut book Les Contes des sailles africanes in 1967, he’s written twelve books that total one thousand poems, twelve plays as well as two essays, and a number of collections that bring together many stories. His output in the field of literature includes a number of novels.

Kamanda’s works have been translated into many languages, including English, Japanese, Italian, and Greek. This writer has earned several major prizes and distinctions, including the Paul Verlaine Prize from the Académie française (1987), the Louise Labé Prize (1990), the Black Africa Grand Prize for Literature (1991), and the Théophile Gautier prize (1993) from the Académie française.In 2005, the International Council for Francophone Studies (Conseil international d’études francophones) conferred upon him the prestigious Maurice-Cagnon Certificate of Honour, for his unique contribution to world francophone literature.

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Kama Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kama Sywor Kamanda celebrates birthday on November 11 of every year.