Justo Bolekia Boleká (born 13 December 1954) is an Equatorial Guinean
scholar and
writer of
Bubi descent.
Life and career
He attended college at
Complutense University of Madrid obtaining a Doctorate degree in Modern Philology in 1986. On June 8, 2007, he received a Ph.D. from the
University of Salamanca, and was awarded their PhD Extraordinary Award.
He was Acting Professor of French Studies at the
University of Salamanca from 1987 until 1990, he then became Assistant Professor of French Studies at the same university. He has also served as Director of the Escuela Universitaria de Educación de
Ávila. He has published numerous books of essays and poetry.[1]
His work has been studied by American professors interested in Afro-Hispanic literary production, and has been included in anthologies of poetry (Literatura de Guinea Ecuatorial, de
Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo y
Mbare Ngom Faye, 2000; La voz y la escritura 2006: 80 nuevas propuestas poéticas, 2006). He also authored such works as Panorama de la Literatura en español en Guinea Ecuatorial published in El español en el mundo. Anuario del Instituto Cervantes, 2005.