François Bingono Bingono was born in 1959 in Njantom, in the South of Cameroon.[2] He pursued studies in modern literature and theatrical arts. He teaches at the École supérieure des sciences et techniques de l'information et de communication de Yaoundé (ESSTIC) and is a researcher on the epistemology of African cryptocommunication and a playwright with the Alabado theater troupe.
In 2009 he published Evu sorcier with Éditions L'Harmattan.[3] In 2020, he wrote two plays, Mafin et Tafin and Sidamour tue, a novel Ekeké, and an anthropological essay Ma bôm nkul, j'apprends à jouer du tambour d'appel, all published by Éditions de Midi.[4][5] He contributed to the preface of William Omer's book Le Cahier des éloges, lettres et illuminations published by L'Harmattan in 2015 and Antoine-Beauvard Zanga's Les hommes de la nuit in 2017.[6] He appeared in the documentary film Mvé-dzié by Roger Nankap in 2014.[1]
As a national expert in intangible cultural heritage, he participated in the 2015, 2017, and 2019 sessions of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage supported by UNESCO.[7]