Abdoulaye Mamani

Abdoulaye Mamani was born in Zinder in 1932 and came to politics through trade unionism, in the ranks of the Sawaba party, of which he became one of the leaders; elected deputy at twenty-five, after the party was banned he went through fifteen years of exile, from Mali to Algeria, then prison on his return, where he rubbed shoulders with another writer of the country. Released in 1979, a poet, playwright and novelist, he died on 3 June 1993 on the road from Zinder to Niamey, where he was going to collect a literary prize.

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• NovelSarraouniaAbdoulaye Mamani · 1980not translated into EnglishLiterature