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André Raponda Walker (1871–1968) was a Gabonese author, ethnographer, Catholic priest, and missionary. Walker wrote extensively about Gabonese language and culture.〔(LFM: Social Sciences and Missions ), Page 12, December 2006, accessed 11 August 2008〕 ==Biography== Raponda-Walker was born to a Mpongwe mother,〔 Princesse Agnorogoulè Ikoutou, niece of King Louis Dowé,〔(Biography of Raponds Walker ), accessed 11 August 2008〕 and Robert Bruce Napoleon Walker, a British merchant in Gabon, and member of the Anthropological Society. The young boy spent a year in England around his fourth birthday but returned to Gabon in 1876 and started at the school of Sainte Marie in 1877. He was ordained in 23 July 1899〔(Historical Dictionary of Gabon ), Gardiner and Yates, 2006, accessed 11 August 2008〕 and his first assignment was at Notre-Dame des Trois-Epis in Ngounié in southern Gabon.〔 He was the first person from Gabon to be ordained as a Catholic priest. He served at several locations in Gabon where he learnt a number of local languages and created dictionaries and lexicographies. These works are still used today.〔 From about 1930, Monsignor Walker was one of the few missionaries still studying and documenting Gabonese anthropology, as many foreign researchers had returned to their countries of origin.〔 Walker used interviews to gather the oral traditions of his country using his knowledge of about twelve Gabonese languages. He gathered histories of the Gabonese estuary, the N'Gounie River valley and coastal areas.〔 Raponda-Walker retired in 1947 at Libreville. He had been stationed at a number of locations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, including Sindara, Libreville, Boutika (Guinée Equatoriale), Donguila, Lambaréné, Saint-Martin (near Mouila) et au Fernan-Vaz.〔 Andre lived to see his country independent. Most of Raponda-Walker's work was published in the last few years of his life, after editing by Marcel Soret, a French ethnologist. The work contributed to a systematic project to record Gabonese culture led by Hubert Deschamps.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「André Raponda Walker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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