| LC control no. | n 2007007267 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Seid, Joseph Brahim |
| Associated country | Chad |
| Birth date | 1927 |
| Death date | 1980 |
| Place of birth | Abéché (Chad) |
| Place of death | Chad |
| Affiliation | Union démocratique tchadienne Mutuelle amicale tchadienne |
| Profession or occupation | Folklorists Authors Public officers |
| Found in | Seid, Joseph Brahim. Told by starlight in Chad, 2007: eCIP t.p. (Joseph Brahim Seid) data view (b. N'Djamena, Chad, 1927; BA, law, Lyons, France) LC database, Jan. 30, 2007 (hdg.: Seid, Joseph Brahim) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed March 24, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Seid, Joseph Brahim; folklorist, autobiographer/ memoirist, government official; born 1927 in Wadai, Abeche, Chad; attended classes at the local Catholic mission in the southern Chadian town of Sarh (Fort-Archambault), with a French priest (1938-1939); decided to switch from the Islamic faith of his family to Roman Catholicism; helped to establish the small Mutuelle Amicale Tchadienne political party (1945); this conservative group became the Union Démocratique Tchadienne (UDT) party; wrote collection of folktales, “Au Tchad sous les étoiles” (1962); published “Un enfant du Tchad”, an autobiographical account of his life (1967); served as minister of justice for president François Tombalbaye's increasingly brutal regime (1966-1975); died 1980 in Chad) |
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