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Burkina Faso

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Titinga Frédéric Pacéré

Died in 2024

Titinga Frédéric Pacéré was born in Manéga on 31 December 1943 and studied in Abidjan. A lawyer at the Ouagadougou bar, he also pleaded before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. A traditional Mossi chief and griot, he founded in Manéga a museum devoted to the traditions of his country. He published more than twenty books, poetry, essays and legal works, received the medal of honour of the association of French-language writers and, in 1982, the Grand Prix littéraire d'Afrique noire for two collections. He died on 8 November 2024, aged eighty.

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