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Guinea (Conakry)

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Saïdou Bokoum

Saïdou Bokoum was born in 1945 in Dinguiraye, in Guinea. After a school strike in Conakry in 1961, he studied in the United States, at Berkeley, then in Algeria, and arrived in Paris at the end of 1964. There he founded with Souleymane Koly the Kaloum Tam-Tam troupe, active from 1966 to 1972, and performed a solo show in Avignon in 1974. A graduate of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, he taught theatre and oral tradition at the University of Paris VIII from 2002 to 2010. He has taken French nationality.

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