Victor N'Gembo-Mouanda
Victor N’Gembo-Mouanda (born September 26, 1969 in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo) is a contemporary African writer and translator of French.
He attended Loutété Carrefour Primary School, then studied at M’fouati College, as a Secondary School in General Education, in the region of Bouenza, before going to school in Brazzaville, first at Nganga Edward College and then at Chaminade Secondary School, where he acquired his baccalaureate at grade A. After a short stay at the Agricultural Secondary School Amilcar Cabral, he attended Marien-Ngouabi University in Brazzaville, where he acquires his Degree in Law, Option Public Law. He successively exercised functions of Secretary of Direction and Manager of the Dactylographic Team and Charged of French language Education in the Medical and Technical Private Institute of Brazzaville. Besides his education, he is interested in science, especially bionics. He is legal Adviser of numerous Congolese associations and foreign non-governmental organizations. As a qualified Lawyer, he is an honorific member of several associations and organizations of defence of Human rights in Republic of Congo. He is an active member of the British antennae of International Amnesty, Diabetes, Wyeth Gastroclub Patient Support and National Health Service Foundation Trust. Researcher and student of African Bantus languages and lecturer. N'Gembo-Mouanda is polyglot: he speaks several languages among which English, Dondo, Kituba, Lingala, Lari and Swahili. Before 2002, all his written works were generally in French, but since then he has concentrated on writing in English. He has published many books and newspaper articles. His most recent books are African School (2005), The racism (2006), The martyr (2007) and Death Penalty (2009), published by Éditions Le Manuscrit. Victor N'Gembo-Mouanda is author of numerous articles of press hired among which the most knowing are « The light weapon: a problem without resolution? », « Why so much hate for if not enough love? » « The reintegration of the children soldiers » and « law on immigration in France ». His writings are under way of translation in a dozen languages, among which are English, Hebrew, Korean, Spanish, Catalan and Italian. A naturalized British citizen, N'Gembo-Mouanda is a permanent resident in the United Kingdom.