Author · Guinea (Conakry)
Fodéba Keïta
Died in 1969
Fodéba Keïta was born on 19 January 1921 in Siguiri. Trained at the École normale William-Ponty, he studied law in Paris, where he founded an orchestra in 1948 and, at the end of the forties, the troupe that would become the Ballets africains, Guinea's national company after independence. Having rallied to Sékou Touré in 1956, he was Minister of Defence and Security from 1961 and arranged the national anthem. Arrested in 1969, he died at Camp Boiro on 27 May of the same year.
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- PoetryAube africaineFodéba Keïta · 1965not translated into EnglishLiterature