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Guinea (Conakry)

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Camara Laye

Died in 1980

Camara Laye was born on 1 January 1928 in Kouroussa, in Malinke country, the son of a blacksmith and goldsmith. After the Poiret school in Conakry, he obtained in 1947 a scholarship for France, studied automobile mechanics in Argenteuil, worked notably at the Simca factory and attended evening classes at the Conservatoire des arts et métiers. Back in 1956, he was Guinea's first ambassador to Ghana, then came into conflict with the regime of Sékou Touré and left in the mid-sixties for Senegal, where he was a researcher at the Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire. He died in Dakar on 4 February 1980.

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