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Ivory Coast

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Ahmadou Kourouma

Died in 2003

Ahmadou Kourouma was born on 24 November 1927 in Boundiali, in the north of Ivory Coast, and was raised by an uncle. Dismissed from the technical school in Bamako for having led pupil unrest, he was conscripted as a tirailleur and then sent to Indochina, as a disciplinary measure, from 1950 to 1954. He then studied mathematics and actuarial science in Lyon. Imprisoned shortly after independence, he lived in exile in Algeria, Cameroon and Togo. He received the Prix Renaudot in 2000 and died in France on 11 December 2003.

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