Amadou Cissé Dia
Amadou Cissé Dia (2 June 1915 – 1 November 2002) was a Senegalese politician and playwright.[1] Born in Saint-Louis, Senegal, he wrote plays in French including Les Derniers Jours de Lat Dior, which concerns a griot's praise for Lat-Dior.[2] In politics, Dia served as the second President of the National Assembly from 1968 to 1983[3], and as Minister of the Interior. He was reportedly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in the year Willy Brandt won.[4]
He died in Dakar in 2002.
Plays
- La mort du Damel
- Les derniers jours de Lat Dior
gollark: Not a very good one.
gollark: Hey, *you're* the one now annoyed at it because you just filled up everything.
gollark: Well, it's a use, just not a useful use.
gollark: 64k *fluid* cells? That's so useless.
gollark: Probably due to the lack of tooling for producing them on-demand.
References
- Janheinz Jahn; Ulla Schild; Almut Nordmann Seiler (1972). Who's who in African Literature: Biographies, Works, Commentaries. Horst Erdmann Verlag. pp. 99–100. ISBN 978-3-7711-0153-4.
- African literature in French: a history of creative writing in French from ... by Dorothy S. Blair, pg 103
- "Assemblée nationale - Les députés, le vote de la loi, le Parlement Sénégalais". May 12, 2019. Archived from the original on May 12, 2019.
- The Palm Beach Post - Oct 21, 1971
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