Dt niane biography of christopher

Guinean writer and historian (1932–2021)

Djibril Tamsir Niane (9 January 1932 – 8 March 2021)^[1] was a Guinean historian, playwright, and short story writer.

Biography

Born in Conakry, Guinea, his secondary education was in Senegal and his degree from the University of Bordeaux. He was an honorary professor of Howard University and the University of Tokyo. He is noted for introducing the Epic of Sundiata, about Sundiata Keita (ca.

1217–1255), founder of the Mali Empire, to the Western world in 1960 by translating the story told to him by Djeli Mamoudou Kouyate, a griot or traditional oral historian.

Dt niane biography of christopher

He also edited Volume IV —Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century— of the UNESCOGeneral History of Africa and participated in other UNESCO projects. He was the father of the late model Katoucha Niane (1960–2008).

Niane died in Dakar, Senegal on 8 March 2021, at age 89, from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Senegal.^[1]