Modeste d'Almeida and Gilbert Laclé

Modeste d'Almeida is a Togolese playwright about whom little is known: the reference works of his country give his birth as around 1940, a Norwegian encyclopedia as 1949. With Gilbert Laclé, he is said to have composed a comedy inspired by Molière as early as 1963, then wrote, when both were students, a play in three acts first staged in 1966. Literary histories place him among those who took up the torch of Togolese theatre shortly after independence. Neither his training, nor his occupation, nor the later course of his work is documented by the accessible sources.

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• TheatreKétéyouli, l'étudiant noirModeste d'Almeida and Gilbert Laclé · 1967not translated into EnglishLiterature