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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, 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 occasional poet ... [...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 * Edgar ... [...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, 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 occasional poet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Gikandi
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Ray Autra
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Mamadou Traoré (poet)
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Sékou Touré
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Williams Sassine
Williams Sassine (1944 in Kankan, Guinea – February 9, 1997 in Conakry, Guinea) was a Guinean novelist who wrote in French. 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.http://www.nigeriavillagesquare1.com/BOOKS/africabest-fiction.html 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 Englis ... [...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 did 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 The COVID-19 pandemic in Senegal is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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