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Ibrahima Ly

Died in 1989

Ibrahima Ly was born in 1936 in Kayes, the son of a Muslim religious figure. After Koranic school, French school and the lycée in Bamako, he studied mathematics in Dakar, then in France, and in 1973 defended a doctorate in Leningrad. A professor in Bamako and an opponent of the military regime, he was arrested in June 1974 and spent four years in detention, in Bamako, Niono and Taoudenni. Released in 1978, he went to Senegal, taught at the University of Dakar, led an opposition party and in 1986 took part in the founding of a democratic front. He died on 1 February 1989.

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