Patrick G. Ilboudo

Patrick Gomdaogo Ilboudo was born on 18 February 1951 in the Bilbalgo district of Ouagadougou. He had to interrupt his secondary studies after the brevet in order to work and pay for the following years, obtained his baccalauréat in 1975 and a degree in modern literature at Ouagadougou, then a doctorate defended in Paris in 1983 on French politics as seen by African newspapers. An assistant at the African institute of film studies, he founded in 1980 a writers' mutual society with Norbert Zongo and, three years later, an anti-racist movement. He died on 28 February 1994, aged forty-three.

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• NovelLe Héraut têtuPatrick G. Ilboudo · 1991not translated into EnglishLiterature