Eddy-Njock N. Wetewete-Liking, known as Werewere-Liking (married name Gnepo), is a pan-African multidisciplinary artist. Born in 1950 in Bondè, Cameroon, she lives and works in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
Largely self-taught, Werewere-Liking began her artistic career in 1966 with poetry and singing, later incorporating painting into her practice. Marked by the legacy of the traditional education she received, her work is shaped by questions surrounding collective memory and the inheritance of African cosmologies in the construction of a contemporary social and spiritual imagination.
In 1978, Werewere-Liking left Cameroon and settled in Côte d'Ivoire. The following year, she joined the University of Abidjan, where she conducted research until 1985 on traditional Negro-African pedagogical and aesthetic practices within the Institute of Negro-African Literature and Aesthetics (ILENA).
That same year, she founded her own theatre company, Ki-Yi M'Bock, with which she staged more than thirty live performances, the most significant of which toured internationally. Building on her academic work, she frequently conceived large-scale theatrical frescoes embodying a total vision. A multitude of performing arts-texts, songs, music, and dance-coexist on stage, activated by theatrical objects such as masks and giant puppets.
Under her influence, Ki-Yi M'Bock continued to grow and became a cultural initiative serving the social cause of underprivileged youth. Among other forms, this initiative took shape as a collective creative village in the heart of Abidjan. In 2001, the Ki-Yi Pan-African Foundation for Youth Training in Creation and Cultural Development was established.
Werewere-Liking has also established herself as a pioneering feminist figure in contemporary pan-African literature. From the late 1970s onward, her literary works have been published and translated into several languages. To date, she has produced nearly thirty works across various genres: poetry, theatre, novels, essays, art books, narratives, and tales. From the 2000s, her major contributions to literature have been internationally recognized, notably with the Noma Award in 2005 and the Book of the Year 2007 award in New York for her novel La Mémoire Amputée, published in 2004 by Nouvelles Éditions Ivoiriennes.