Aké Loba

Gérard Aké Loba was born on 15 August 1927 in Abobo, now a commune of Abidjan. He lived in France in his youth, an experience of which his first book bears the trace, then pursued a career in his country's diplomatic service. The writer Isaïe Biton Koulibaly, who accompanied him in 1978 to a book fair in Nice, presents him at that time as director of arts and letters, and as an author capable of working for months on a single page. A deputy, then mayor of Abobo from 1985 to 1990, he ended his life in France, his wife's country, and died in Aix-en-Provence in August 2012.

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• NovelKocoumbo, l'étudiant noirAké Loba · 1960not translated into EnglishLiterature