Djibril Tamsir Niane

Djibril Tamsir Niane (born 9 January 1932) is a historian, playwright, and short story writer, born in Conakry, Guinea.

His secondary education was in Senegal and his degree from the University of Bordeaux. He is an honorary professor of Howard University and the University of Tokyo. He is noted for introducing the Epic of Sundiata, about Sundiata Keita (ca 1217-1255), founder of the Mali Empire, to the Western world in 1960 by translating the story told to him by Djeli Mamoudou Kouyate, a griot or traditional oral historian. He also edited Volume IV —Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century— of the UNESCO General History of Africa and did other UNESCO projects. He is the father of the late model Katoucha Niane, (1960–2008).

Fonctions occupées Guinée

Sénégal

Sociétés savantes

Décorations

D.T. Niane is the father of the late French supermodel and activist Katoucha Niane. When his late daughter Katoucha was nine years old, he consented to her sexual mutilation. She later campaigned forcefully against this barbaric practice, describing her own pain and suffering in her autobiography, Dans Ma Chair (In My Flesh).

Texte : Histoire du Royaume du Gabu

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