Bakary Diallo

Bakary Diallo was born in 1892 in Mbala, a Fula village between Podor and Dagana, and tended livestock. A volunteer in 1911 with the tirailleurs, he was gravely wounded in 1914 and spent long months in hospital. He later became an interpreter with the African troops in France, and served Blaise Diagne during his visits to the camps. Back in Senegal in 1928, he wrote poems in Fula, long unknown, and ended his life in Podor. He died in 1978.

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