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Ivory Coast

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Jean-Marie Adiaffi

Died in 1999

Jean-Marie Adé Adiaffi was born on 1 January 1941 in Bettié, in the Abengourou region, in Agni country. After secondary studies in Bingerville and then in France, he studied cinema at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques and did a placement at the Office de coopération radiophonique, before working at Ivorian television. Back in Paris, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and obtained the certificat d'aptitude au professorat, then taught it in the lycées of Abidjan. A co-founder of the Association of Writers of Côte d'Ivoire, he died in Abidjan on 15 November 1999.

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