Sony Labou Tansi

…established major reputations: Sylvain Bemba, Sony Labou Tansi, and Tchicaya U Tam’si. Bemba (writing as Martial Malinda) offered the play L’Enfer, c’est Orféo (1968), a satirical and fantastical work of political allegory. Those qualities were also evident in his later plays, such as L’Homme qui tua le crocodile (1972) and…