Honorine Ngou

Honorine Ngou (born 1957) is a Gabonese writer and academic.
Life.
Ngou was born in 1957, the oldest of eleven children. Her parents encouraged her schooling, though her mother had never attended school and her father had only completed two years of elementary school. When she was sixteen she married Albert Ngou, a university student in Libreville. She studied with her husband in Libreville, and when he attended university in France in 1974 she enrolled in a Grenoble lycée. Returning to Gabon with her husband in 1978, she did graduate study at Omar Bongo University before gaining a doctorate in France. By 1985 she was a professor at Omar Bongo University, and soon afterwards became chair of the Department of French there.
She lives in one of Libreville's poorest neighborhoods, Nzengayong, where she has opened a bookstore, Le Savoir.