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Peter K. Palangyo

Died in 1993

Peter K. Palangyo was born in 1939 in the Meru district, of Rwa parents. He studied biology at St. Olaf College, in Minnesota, then at the University of Minnesota, before turning to literature: a graduate in education from Makerere, he taught in secondary schools, took part in 1968 in the writing workshop of the University of Iowa, then taught in Dar es Salaam from 1972. Entering the diplomatic service, he was notably ambassador to France, and in 1980 defended in Buffalo a thesis on Chinua Achebe. He died in a car accident in January 1993.

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