ErostrateDiscovering the world's cultures, one work at a time
My list 0

How the works were chosen

Benin

Author · Benin

Félix Couchoro

Died in 1968

Félix Couchoro was born on 30 January 1900 in Ouidah, in Dahomey, to Dahomean parents. A pupil at the Catholic mission of Grand-Popo and then at the minor seminary of Ouidah, he taught at the Catholic school of Grand-Popo from 1919 to 1924, then managed a branch of a trading company. From 1931 to 1933, he ran a newspaper that argued for freedom of trade between the two colonies. Harassed by the police, he settled in Aného in 1939, was active in the party of Sylvanus Olympio and published his novels in serial form. He died in Lomé on 5 April 1968.

In the catalogue 1