Author · Guinea (Conakry)
Tierno Mouhammadou-Samba Mombéyâ
Died in 1850
Tierno Mouhammadou-Samba Mombéyâ was born around 1765 in Mombéyâ, in Labé, in Fouta Djallon, in the lineage of the Seeleyaaɓe of the Diallo clan. Trained under the master Muhammadu-Njandi, he travelled among the scholars of Fouta, Tôro and southern Mauritania, then opened in Mombéyâ a school of higher learning. He dictated his poems to his disciples, accompanied war expeditions by extolling the fighters, and advised the princes of his time. He died around 1850, according to the BnF.
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- PoetryOogirde malalTierno Mouhammadou-Samba Mombéyâ · 1825not translated into EnglishLiterature