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Ivory Coast

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Amadou Koné

Amadou Koné was born in 1953 and was educated in Ivory Coast, up to a licence in modern literature obtained in 1974 at the University of Abidjan. Recruited in October 1977 to the department of modern literature of that university, he defended a doctorat d'État at Limoges. He left Abidjan in 1990 for Germany, thanks to a research grant, then in 1992 went to the United States, where he taught at Tulane University, in Louisiana, before joining Georgetown University, in Washington, in 1997 to teach African literature and history.

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