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Boubou Hama

Died in 1982

Boubou Hama was born at Fonéko, near Téra, in 1906 or 1907 depending on the sources, and died in Niamey on 29 January 1982. The first teacher of his country trained in the French school, a graduate of William-Ponty in 1929, he taught in Niamey and Tillabéri, then entered politics within the progressive party, which he chaired. President of the National Assembly for fourteen years, a historian, storyteller and essayist, he chaired in June 1969 the meeting of experts that founded UNESCO's General History of Africa, and received the Senghor prize for an essay on schooling in Africa.

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