Yambo Ouologuem

Yambo Ouologuem was born on 22 August 1940 in Bandiagara, in Dogon country; his father was a landowner and school inspector. After attending the lycée in Bamako, he went to Paris in 1960, studied literature, philosophy and English, and taught at the lycée in Charenton while preparing a doctorate in sociology. Back in Mali at the end of the seventies, he ran a centre near Mopti until 1984 and wrote school textbooks, then lived in seclusion. He died at the hospital in Sévaré on 14 or 15 October 2017.

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• NovelBound to ViolenceLe Devoir de violenceYambo Ouologuem · 1968Literature