Birago Diop

Birago Diop was born on 11 December 1906 in Ouakam, near Dakar. A veterinarian trained in Toulouse, he worked for the administration in French Sudan, Côte d'Ivoire, Upper Volta and Mauritania, which brought him into contact with the storytellers of the bush. Close to the négritude movement, he was Senegal's ambassador to Tunisia in the wake of independence. He produced other collections of tales, one of which won him the Grand Prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 1964, a book of poems and several volumes of memoirs. He died in Dakar on 25 November 1989.

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• TaleTales of Amadou KoumbaLes Contes d'Amadou KoumbaBirago Diop · 1947Literature