Simone Kaya

Simone Kaya was born on 11 February 1937 in Bouaflé, into a family that came from present-day Burkina Faso. Her father sent her to school in Bocanda, then at thirteen she left for France, where she trained as a nurse. A nurse and social worker in Brazzaville and Yaoundé, then in Abidjan, she became the first woman to head the National Institute of Social Training. A women's rights activist, she published a novel in 1984, Le Prix d'une vie.

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• NarrativeLes Danseuses d'Impé-EyaSimone Kaya · 1976not translated into EnglishLiterature