Niane biography

Guinean writer and historian (–)

Djibril Tamsir Niane (9 January – 8 March )^[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.

Niane biography

He is noted for introducing the Epic of Sundiata, about Sundiata Keita (ca. –), founder of the Mali Empire, to the Western world in by translating the story told to him by Djeli Mamoudou Kouyate, a griot or traditional oral historian.

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 (–).

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

Bibliography

• Recherches sur l'Empire du