Jacques-Prosper Bazié

Jacques-Prosper Bazié was born in 1955 in Ouagadougou, into a family originating from the Sanguié. A journalist, he headed press outlets in Ouagadougou, then built a career in cultural administration from 1988: director of arts and performance, secretary general of the ministry of information and culture, director general of the Institut des peuples noirs from 1997 to 1999, and finally cultural adviser in his country's embassies in Paris and in Canada. He founded the Kraal publishing house and published in every genre. He died in 2014.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryOrphelin des collines ancestralesJacques-Prosper Bazié · 1984not translated into EnglishLiterature