Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Equatoguinean writer
Is Writer 
Journalist 
Politician 
From Equatorial Guinea 
Type Journalism 
Literature 
Politics 
Gender male
Birth Niefang

Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo (born 1950 in Niefang, Spanish Guinea) is an Equatorial Guinean writer/journalist and part of a movement of young Afro-descended authors who have contributed their African experience and traditions to Hispanic culture.

Writings

Some of his best-known books include Historia y tragedia de Guinea Ecuatorial (1977) and El Comercio Español con Africa (1980), in addition to numerous novels, historical, cultural and political articles written in Spain and for the foreign press. In 1984 he coordinated an anthology of Equatorial Guinean literature and was a finalist for the Sésamo Prize for his work entitled “Las Tinieblas de tu Memoria Negra”.

Professional activities

Subsequently, he has served as the adjunct director for “Nuestra Señora de África de Madrid” (Our Lady of Africa in Madrid) and the “Centro Cultural Hispano-Guineano de Malabo” (The Center for Hispanic-Guinean Culture in Malabo).

Recently he has been a visiting professor at several United States universities.

In English

  • Shadows of Your Black Memory, translated and with a postscript by Michael Ugarte, Swan Isle Press (2007) ISBN 0-9748881-2-5
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