Véronique Tadjo

Véronique Tadjo was born in Paris in 1955, to an Ivorian father, a civil servant, and a French mother, a painter and sculptor, and grew up in Abidjan. A graduate in English from the University of Abidjan, she took a doctorate in African-American civilisation at the Sorbonne, taught English at the lycée in Korhogo, then at the University of Abidjan. She later lived in Nigeria, Mexico, Kenya and England, then in Johannesburg, where she headed the French department at the University of the Witwatersrand. She illustrates her own children's books and in 2005 received the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire.

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• PoetryRed EarthLatériteVéronique Tadjo · 1984Literature