Amadou Hampâté Bâ Author

Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1900–1991) was one of the major intellectual and literary figures of twentieth-century Africa as well as a colonial official and postcolonial diplomat. He is the author of the novel The Fortunes of Wangrin and numerous books in French.

Jeanne Garane is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina.