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Burkina Faso

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Yamba Tiendrébéogo

Died in 1982

Yamba Tiendrébéogo was born in 1907. Holder of the office of Larhallé Naba, one of the great dignitaries of the court of the Mogho Naaba of Ouagadougou, under the name Naba Abgha, he was also a politician and writer. From the late fifties he conducted with the French magistrate Robert Pageard a long dialogue on the history and traditional organisation of the kingdom, which produced several books, then published on his own collections of tales, fables and sayings of the Mossi country. He died in 1982.

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