Dieudonné Pascal Ndouna Okogo, known as Ndouna Dépénaud, was a Gabonese writer, poet, playwright, educator, and diplomat, born on July 7, 1937, in Akiéni, Haut-Ogooué province in the southeast of the country, and assassinated on July 19, 1977, in Libreville.
For the French journalist, the death of the Gabonese poet was linked to this past relationship with Omar Bongo's wife.
Although the assassination of Ndouna Dépénaud remains unresolved, he is said to have been "cold-bloodedly murdered" by three members of the presidential guard.
Placide Ondo also mentioned rumors of a crime of passion involving Ndouna Dépénaud and Josephine Kama.
Literary critic Fortunat Obiang notes that "Ndouna Dépénaud favors themes that sufficiently indicate that his writing is on the margins of the lyrical protest inherent in Negritude".