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Julien Alapini

Died in 1970

Julien Alapini was born on 28 August 1906 in Abomey-Calavi. After the Victor-Ballot higher primary school, he graduated in 1929 from the École normale William-Ponty, on Gorée, and was a teacher and then headmaster in about ten localities of Dahomey, from Porto-Novo to Parakou. A fervent Catholic and an admirer of French culture, he carried out ethnographic and linguistic research on his country, and composed a grammar and plays. Appointed schools inspector in 1960 and retired in 1967, he died on 26 February 1970.

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