Bernard Dadié

Bernard Binlin Dadié was born on 10 January 1916 in Assinie, in the south of Ivory Coast. A pupil at the William-Ponty teacher training school in Senegal, he then worked for about ten years in Dakar, at the Institut français d'Afrique noire, before returning home in 1947 and becoming an activist in the Rassemblement démocratique africain. Arrested after the unrest of February 1949, he spent sixteen months in detention. Twice winner of the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire, in 1965 and in 1968, he was Minister of Culture from 1977 to 1986. He died in Abidjan on 9 March 2019, aged one hundred and three.

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• TheatreMonsieur Thôgô-gniniBernard Dadié · 1970not translated into EnglishLiterature