Joseph Ambouroue-Avaro
1934 – 1978
Joseph Ambouroue Avaro was born in Port-Gentil (Gabon) in 17 August 1934. After obtaining his French Baccalaureat in Libreville, he pursued his studies in history and geography in France at the Sorbonne (Gray, n.d., Nwèndogo). His thesis was focused on the people (Orungu and Nkomi) of the lower Ogooue area in the 19th (Gray, n.d.). The fact he was subjected to the harassment of Gabonese authorities is strongly believed to have "destroyed" its "promising careers as scholar" (Gray, n.d.). He sadly died in 17 November 1978 in the crash of an airplane that he rented from AERO-CLUB of Libreville.
