Author · Mauritania
Ousmane Moussa Diagana
Died in 2001
Ousmane Moussa Diagana was born in 1951 in Kaédi, into a Soninke maraboutic family. A student in Morocco, who came to linguistics following an elder brother who worked on Soninke, he made his career at the University of Nouakchott, where he headed a department from 1985 and taught the national languages. His collection of traditional Soninke songs received the Robert Delavignette Prize, and his state thesis produced a grammar of that language. He died on 9 August 2001.
In the catalogue 1
- PoetryCherguiya, odes lyriques à une femme du SahelOusmane Moussa Diagana · 1999not translated into EnglishLiterature