| Intro | Cameroonian author and anthropologist |
| Was |
Writer Anthropologist Novelist |
| From | Cameroon |
| Type |
Literature Social science |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 22 November 1955, Sa’a, Cameroon |
| Death |
24 March 2008, Yaoundé (aged 52 years) |
Severin Cecile Abega (1955 – March 24, 2008) was a Cameroonian author, anthropologist and researcher.
Biography
Severin Cecile Abega was born in 1955 at Saa in the South of Cameroon. He died on March 24, 2008 in Yaoundé, the Capital (political and administrative) city of Cameroon.
He studied anthropology, and was a well-established Cameroonian writer producing classics like “Les Bimanes”. Severin Cecile Abega tried to stay objective and to discuss the changes in the Cameroonian society good or bad. With his great sense of humor and his mastery of the language, he was able to relate the realities of corruption in a country marred by it.
At the time of his death, he was teaching at the Catholic Institute of Africa, in Yaoundé, Cameroon.