Jean Pliya

Jean Pliya was born on 21 July 1931 in Djougou, in Dahomey. Educated at the University of Dakar and then at that of Toulouse, from which he graduated in 1957, he returned in 1959 to teach in his own country, then served as Minister of Information and Tourism in the first governments of independence, and as Minister of Education. An author of short stories, plays and tales, he also translated Fon narratives into French. National head of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Benin, he died in Abidjan on 14 May 2015.

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• Short storiesL'Arbre féticheJean Pliya · 1971not translated into EnglishLiterature