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Cheikh Hamidou Kane

Died in 2026

Cheikh Hamidou Kane was born on 2 April 1928 in Matam. Having attended the Koranic school and then the French school, he studied law and philosophy at the Sorbonne, and graduated in 1956 from the École nationale de la France d'outre-mer. Returning in 1959, he was governor of the Thiès region, worked for UNICEF in Lagos and Abidjan, then was minister of Planning and Cooperation in the eighties. He published only a second novel, in 1995, and received the Grand Prix des Mécènes in 2019. He died in Dakar in October 2026, at the age of ninety-eight.

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