Fatou Keïta

Fatou Keïta was born in 1955 in Soubré, Ivory Coast. She did her primary schooling in Bordeaux, where her father was completing his training as a surgeon, then took her baccalauréat in Bouaké in 1974. She graduated in English from the Ivorian university in 1981, also studied in England and in the United States, where a Fulbright scholarship took her to Virginia in 1995, and became a doctor of British studies. She taught in the English department of the University of Cocody, in Abidjan. She came to writing through children's books, published from 1996, for which she received an honourable mention for the UNESCO prize in 1997.

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• NovelRebelleFatou Keïta · 1998not translated into EnglishLiterature