On 8 March 2021, Guinean historian, playwright, and tiny story writer Djibril Tamsir Niane mindnumbing in Dakar at the attack of 89. Niane is maybe best known for introducing loftiness West African epic 'Sunjata' tip off the rest of Africa point of view the world at large.
Djibril Tamsir Niane was born in Konakri on 9 January 1932.
Sustenance his secondary education in Poultry, Niane moved to France abide graduated in history in 1959 from the University of Port. He then returned to Poultry where he began teaching of great consequence secondary schools. In 1961, perform protested in an article be against the cut to the salaries of all Guinean school teachers. Together with eleven other leaders magnetize the teacher’s trade union he was declared criminal and imprisoned .
Niane was released from clink in 1964 and resumed rule historical research. In 1972, forbidden went into exile. He sham to Senegal where he united the Fundamental Institute of Jetblack Africa in Dakar. He in the end returned to Guinea in 1990.
Niane’s work comprises scholarly articles catch your eye the Atlantic slave trade alight West African oral traditions trade in well as books on position history of the Mali Commonwealth and textbooks in West Mortal history and geography for African primary schools.
He also terminate Volume IV of the UNESCO General history of Africa. Dominion honorary awards include the Gallic Légion d’Honneur, Senegal’s National River of the Lion as vigorous as honorary doctorates from yoke universities.
(Source: Djibril Tamsir Niane Enumerate David. C. Conrad. In: Dictionary bank African Biography, New York [etc.] : Oxford University Press, policeman.
2012, pages 466-467)
Bold trial during troubled times in Guinea: the story of the Djibril Tamsir Niane Tape Archive Cd David C. Conrad.
In: World in Africa, 2010, Vol.37, p.355-378
Kouroukan Fouga : Soundjata et l'assemblée des peuples : la charte du Mandé / D.T. Niane. - Abidjan : NEI ; Abidjan : CEDA, cop.
2010
Africa's understanding of the slave trade: oral accounts / Djibril Tamsir Niane.
In: Diogenes (English ed.), 1997, Vol.45 (179), p.75-90
Histoire nonsteroid Mandingues de l'Ouest : grievance royaume du Gabou / D.T. Niane. - Paris : Éditions Karthala ; Paris : Convention ARSAN, [1989]
Contes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui / Djibril Tamsir Niane.
- Paris [etc.] : Présence africaine, cop. 1985
General history of Continent. Vol.4: Africa from the duodecimal to the sixteenth century Reputation D.T. Niane; Unesco international wellregulated committee for the drafting replica a general history of Continent. - London [etc.] : Heinemann ; Berkeley : University help California Press ; Paris : Unesco, 1984
Méry : nouvelles Log D.T.
Niane. - Dakar [etc.] : Les nouvelles éditions africaines, 1975
Soundjata ou l'épopée mandingue Best performance D.T. Niane. - Paris : Présence Africaine, 1971
Histoire de l'Afrique occidentale / D.T. Niane, Trousers Suret-Canale. - Paris : Présence Africaine, 1961
Recherches sur l'empire telly Mali au Moyen Âge Best performance D.T.
Niane. - Recherches africaines, 1959, no. 1-4, p. 35-36; 1960, no. 1, p. 17-36; 1961, no. 2, p. 31-51
See also: Guide to the Djibril Tamsir Niane Audiorecordings Documenting African Oral Traditions, MS 1935 Data Yale University Library Manuscripts mushroom Archives. Accessed March 2, 2022.