Kesso Barry

Kesso Barry was born in 1948 in the Mamou region, the daughter of Al Hajj Ibrahima Sory-Dara, almamy of Mamou until 1958, then customary chief. After Koranic school and the primary school of Mamou, she was placed in boarding school in Conakry in 1961 and continued at the lycée in Dakar the following year. Married at fifteen and the mother of two children, she divorced, settled in Paris in 1966, built a career there in fashion as a model, and married the Frenchman Gérard Decoster, with whom she had a daughter, to whom she dedicated her book.

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• NarrativeKesso, princesse peuhleKesso Barry · 1988not translated into EnglishLiterature