Marie-Leontine Tsibinda

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Marie-Léontine Tsibinda Bilombo is an acclaimed poet and novelist from Congo Brazzaville (writing in French). She received the National Prize for Poetry in 1981 and the Prize Unesco-Aschberg for her novel Les pagnes mouillés in 1996. Tsibinda was born in Girard, in the Mayombe Congo in the Kouilou. She obtained a Masters in English (Maîtrise en Littératures et Civilisations Américaines) at the University of Brazzaville. For the Faculty of Arts and Lettres of the University of Brazzaville she has written several publications like: Visages de femmes dans l'oeuvre de Jean Malonga (1991), L'itinéraire d'une femme dans la forêt des hommes de lettres (1993); La Métamorphose tragique de Marie-Léo dans la chèvre et le léopard (1995); Traduire Sony Labou Tansi (1996); Moi femme noire, femme nue ou Léopold Sedar Senghor chantre de la femme (1996). She has lived in various Congolese towns like Girard, Dolisie, Les Saras, Pointe-Noire, and Bounda. Between 1979 and 1987 she was an actress in of the Rocado Zulu Theatrical Company of playwright and novelist Sony Labou Tansi (1947-1995). Because of Congo's civil war, she had to flee her country in 1999 and took refuge first in Niamey , later in Cotonou and eventually in Canada (2002). She is a mother and married to the poet Bilombo-Samba.

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[edit] Tsibinda's idealism

The love of her native country is a characteristic of the work of Tsibinda from the very beginning (poems of the earth (poèmes de la terre) and Mayombe), but unrest is already present in these verse which were written under a regime that did not tolerate the least sign of dissidence. The promis of a better future can be read in the pages written by Tsibinda after the National Sovereignty Conference of 1991: Moi, Congo ou les reveurs de la souveraineté. (I, Congo, or the dreamers of sovereignty) Ironically these pages were only to appear in 2000 after a series of cruel deceptions: democratic elections followed by violent civil war and the restoration of Nguesso to power and the exil of the poet herself. But it is these literary dreams full of hope and of love for her native country and its people that remained the characteristics of Marie-Léontine Tsibinda's work.

[edit] Most recent publications

L'Oiseau sans arme [The defenceless bird]. (Illustrated by Michel Hengo). Jouy-Le-Moutier (France) : Bajag-Meri, 1999. [Poetry]

Moi, Congo ou les rêveurs de la souveraineté. Jouy-Le-Moutier (France) : Bajag-Meri, 2000. (204p.) ISBN 2-911147-07-3 [Anthology].

[edit] Other publications

  • Poèmes de la terre [Poems of the Earth]. Brazzaville: Editions littéraires congolaises, 1980.
  • Mayombé. Paris: Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 1980.
  • Une Lèvre naissant d'une autre [From one word to the next]. Heidelberg: Editions bantoues, 1984.
  • Demain, un autre jour [Tomorrow is another day]. Paris: Silex, 1987.
  • L'Oiseau sans arme [The defenceless bird]. (Illustrated by Michel Hengo). Jouy-Le-Moutier (France) : Bajag-Meri, 1999 .

Short Stories

  • "Mayangi", Peuples Noirs Peuples Africains [Black people White people] 20 (1981), pp.148-151.
  • "Quand gronde l'orage" ["When the storm rumbles"], (details of publication unknown, 1982).
  • "L'irrésistible Dekha Danse" in M.M. Kintende. Un Voyage comme tant d'autres [A Journey like so many others] . Paris: Hatier, 1984.
  • "La Princess d'ébène", ["The black princess"]Amina 169 (1st September 1985), pp.64-64.

[edit] External links

  • Wet Pagnes, A short story by Marie-Léontine Tsibinda, 1997

Translated and annotated by Kathleen McGovern, Goucher College (2005)

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