Joseph Brahim Seïd

Joseph Brahim Seïd was born in 1927 in Fort-Lamy, present-day N'Djamena. After primary school in Chad, he did his secondary studies in Egypt; a jurist and statesman, he was Minister of Justice from 1966 to 1975. In 1962 he published, in Paris, a collection of tales, then a narrative drawn from his own life. The association of Chadian writers regards him as the country's first official writer, and literary studies place him among the intellectuals of the first generation of independence. He died in 1980.

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• TaleTold by Starlight in ChadAu Tchad sous les étoilesJoseph Brahim Seïd · 1962Literature