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Guinean Writers
This is a list of Guinean writers. * Kesso Barry (born 1948), autobiographer also associated with Senegal * Saïdou Bokoum (born 1945), novelist * Sory Camara, anthropologist * Ahmed Tidjani Cissé (born 1942), playwright * Koumanthio Zeinab Diallo (born 1956), poet and novelist * Alioum Fantouré (born 1938), economist and novelist * Keita Fodeba (1921–1969), actor, politician and writer * Lansiné Kaba (1941–2023), historian * Fodéba Keïta (1921–1969), poet and dancer * Siré Komara (born 1991), novelist: ''Mes Racines'' * Camara Laye (1928–1980), novelist: '' The Black Child'' * Tierno Monénembo (born 1947), novelist: '' The Oldest Orphan'', '' Les écailles du Ciel'', '' Peulorihno'', '' Le Roi de Kahel'' * Condetto Nénékhaly-Camera (1930–1972), poet and playwright * Djibril Tamsir Niane (1932–2021), novelist and historian * Williams Sassine (1944–1997), French-language novelist * Sékou Touré (1922–1984), politician, political writer and occa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kesso Barry
Kesso Barry (born 1948) is a Guinean autobiographical writer in French language, French. Her autobiography, dedicated to her daughter, recounts the restrictive gender roles of her traditional upbringing as a member of the Fulani nobility in Guinea-Conakry, and her escape to a Westernised life in Paris. Life Kesso Barry's father was Al Hajj Ibrahima Sory-Dara, almamy of Mamou. She was educated in Koranic and primary schools in Mamou, before continuing education in Conakry and Dakar. She married aged 15, and had two children. In 1966, after divorcing her husband, she moved to Paris. There she pursued a successful career in fashion, married a Frenchman, and wrote her autobiographical novel. Works * ''Kesso, princesse peuhle'' [Kesso, a Fulani princess], Paris: Seghers, 1988. References Further reading * Irène Assiba d'Almeida, 'Kesso Barry's ''Kesso'', or Autobiography as a Subverted Tale', ''Research in African Literatures'' Vol. 28, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 66–82 * Edga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Oldest Orphan
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Lists Of African Writers
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Guinean Writers
This is a list of Guinean writers. * Kesso Barry (born 1948), autobiographer also associated with Senegal * Saïdou Bokoum (born 1945), novelist * Sory Camara, anthropologist * Ahmed Tidjani Cissé (born 1942), playwright * Koumanthio Zeinab Diallo (born 1956), poet and novelist * Alioum Fantouré (born 1938), economist and novelist * Keita Fodeba (1921–1969), actor, politician and writer * Lansiné Kaba (1941–2023), historian * Fodéba Keïta (1921–1969), poet and dancer * Siré Komara (born 1991), novelist: ''Mes Racines'' * Camara Laye (1928–1980), novelist: '' The Black Child'' * Tierno Monénembo (born 1947), novelist: '' The Oldest Orphan'', '' Les écailles du Ciel'', '' Peulorihno'', '' Le Roi de Kahel'' * Condetto Nénékhaly-Camera (1930–1972), poet and playwright * Djibril Tamsir Niane (1932–2021), novelist and historian * Williams Sassine (1944–1997), French-language novelist * Sékou Touré (1922–1984), politician, political writer and occa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Gikandi
Simon E. Gikandi (born 30 September 1960) is a Kenyan Literature Professor and Postcolonial scholar. He is the Class of 1943 University Professor of English and Chair, Department of English at Princeton University. He is perhaps best known for his co-editorship (with Abiola Irele) of ''The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature''. He has also done important work on the modern African novel, and two distinguished African novelists: Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. In 2019 he became the president of the Modern Language Association. Early life and education Gikandi was born to a Presbyterian family in Nyeri, Kenya. He graduated with a B.A irst-Class Honorsin Literature from the University of Nairobi. He was a British Council Scholar at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland from which he graduated with a M.Litt. in English Studies. He has a Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University. His major Fields of Research and Teaching are the Anglophone Literatures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Autra
Ray or RAY may refer to: Fish * Ray (fish), any cartilaginous fish of the superorder Batoidea * Ray (fish fin anatomy), the bony or horny spine on ray-finned fish Science and mathematics * Half-line (geometry) or ray, half of a line split at an initial point * Directed half-line or ray, half of a directed or oriented line split at an initial point * Ray (graph theory), an infinite sequence of vertices such that each vertex appears at most once in the sequence and each two consecutive vertices in the sequence are the two endpoints of an edge in the graph * Ray (optics), an idealized narrow beam of light * Ray (quantum theory), an equivalence class of state-vectors representing the same state Arts and entertainment Music * The Rays, an American musical group active in the 1950s * Ray (musician), stage name of Japanese singer Reika Nakayama (born 1990) * Ray (girl group), a Japanese girl group formed in 2019 * Ray J, stage name of singer William Ray Norwood, Jr. (born 1981) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mamadou Traoré (poet) (1947–2007), Malian politician
* Mamadou Namory Traoré, Malian politician
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Mamadou Traoré may refer to: * Mamadou Traoré (murderer) (born 1973), Senegalese-born French serial rapist and murderer * Mamadou Traoré (footballer, born 1994), Malian footballer * Mamadou Traoré (footballer, born 2002), Malian footballer * Mamadou Lamine Traoré Mamadou Lamine Traoré (January 2, 1947 – July 21, 2007 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sékou Touré
Sekou, also spelled Sékou or Seku, is a given name from the Fula language. It is equivalent to the Arabic ''Sheikh''. People with this name include: People * Sekou (singer), British singer Given name * Seku Amadu (1776–1845), also known as Sékou Amadou or Sheikh Amadu, founder of the Massina Empire in Mali * Ahmed Sékou Touré (1922–1984), first president of Guinea (1958–1984) * Sekou Sundiata (1948–2007), African-American poet and performer at The New School in New York City * Sekou Conneh (born 1960), Liberian politician and former rebel leader * Sékou Dramé (born 1973), Guinean football player * Sékou Berthé (born 1977), Malian football defender who last played for Persepolis in Iran Pro League * Sékou Fofana (born 1980), Malian football defender who plays for FC Banants in Armenian Premier League * Sékou Tidiane Souaré (born 1983), Ivorian football player, who currently plays for B36 Tórshavn * Sekou Baradji (born 1984), French football midfielder * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Williams Sassine
Williams Sassine (1944 in Kankan, Guinea – February 9, 1997 in Conakry, Guinea) was a Guinean novelist who wrote in French. Life His father was Lebanese Christian and his mother was a Guinean of Muslim heritage. Sassine was an expatriate African writer in France after leaving Guinea when it received independence under Sékou Touré. As a novelist he wrote of marginalized characters, but he became more optimistic on Touré's death. His 1979 novel '' Le jeune homme de sable'' has been regarded as among the best 20th-century African novels. Few of his works have been translated into English, but ''Wirriyamu'' was published in an English translation in 1980. As an editor he remained critical of Touré as chief editor for the satirical paper '' Le Lynx''. Some of Sassine's works have been translated into English, Spanish and Russian. Selected works * ''Saint Monsieur Baly'' (1971) * ''Wirriyamu'' (1976) (in 1980, an English language translation by Clive Wake and John Reed wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djibril Tamsir Niane
Djibril Tamsir Niane (9 January 1932 – 8 March 2021) was a Guinean historian, playwright, and short story writer. Biography Born in Conakry, Guinea, his secondary education was in Senegal and his degree from the University of Bordeaux. He was an honorary professor of Howard University and the University of Tokyo. He is noted for introducing the Epic of Sundiata, about Sundiata Keita (ca. 1217–1255), founder of the Mali Empire, to the Western world in 1960 by translating the story told to him by Djeli Mamoudou Kouyate, a griot or traditional oral historian. He also edited Volume IV —Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century— of the UNESCO '' General History of Africa'' and participated in other UNESCO projects. He was the father of the late model Katoucha Niane (1960–2008). Niane died in Dakar, Senegal on 8 March 2021, at age 89, from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Senegal. Bibliography Recherches sur l'Empire du Mali au Moyen Age(D.E.S.), suivi d Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
