Ibrahima Mamadou Ouane

Ibrahima Mamadou Ouane was born in 1908, in Bandiagara according to the Malian press, which ranks him among the three great writers of that town. An ethnographer, historian, novelist and poet, he published in 1938 a study of the Dogon, then, in the 1950s, works on Muslim law and on Islam in the face of French civilisation. A leading figure of the Union franco-musulmane, he was deported to Kidal by the colonial administration for his opinions, then rehabilitated. No date of death is known for him.

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• NovelLe Collier de coquillagesIbrahima Mamadou Ouane · 1957not translated into EnglishLiterature