Joseph Owono’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Ambassador
Was Diplomat
Writer
From Cameroon
Type Literature
Politics
Gender male
Birth

17 December 1921, Cameroon, Cameroon

Death

17 December 1981
(aged 60 years)

Star sign Sagittarius

Joseph Owono (1921 – December 17, 1981) was a Cameroonian writer and diplomat. He served as Cameroonian Ambassador to the United States in the 1970s. His novel Tante Bella (Aunt Bella), published in 1959, was the first novel to be published in Cameroon.

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