Mohamed Toihiri

Mohamed Toihiri was born on 20 August 1955 in Mitsoudjé, on Grande Comore, and spent his childhood in eastern Madagascar, in the province of Tamatave. After the lycée in Moroni, he pursued his higher education in Bordeaux, where he defended a doctoral thesis on the work of Sembène Ousmane. A teacher in the Comoros and in France, then at the University of Michigan, he became in 2007 the Comoros' ambassador to the United States and his country's permanent representative to the United Nations. The first Comorian novelist writing in French, he has also written for the theatre.

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• NovelLa République des imberbesMohamed Toihiri · 1985not translated into EnglishLiterature