| LC control no. | n 93119135 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PQ3989.2.B746 |
| Personal name heading | Bruly Bouabré, Frédéric |
| Variant(s) | Bouabré, Bruly Bouabré, Frédéric Bruly Bruly, Frédéric Cheik Nadro Cheikh Nadro Frédéric Bruly Bouabré Gboagbré, Gbeuly |
| Located | Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire) |
| Birth date | 1923~ |
| Death date | 2014 |
| Place of birth | Zéprégüé (Côte d'Ivoire) |
| Field of activity | Bete language Bété (African people) Oral tradition Alphabet Outsider art |
| Affiliation | Magiciens de la Terre (Exhibition) (1989 : Paris, France) |
| Profession or occupation | Artists Illustrators Mystics Outsider artists |
| Found in | Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, c1993. Africa hoy, c1991: p. 217 (Frédéric Bruly Bouabre, b. 1923) Domin et Zézê légende, 1994: t.p. (Frédéric Bruly Bouabré) p. 4 of cover (b. 1921, Ivory Coast) biog. p. (b. 1923 (date "officielle") or 1921 (date "révélée") as Gbeuly Gboagbré in Zeprégühé; 1941 left for Dakar; service in Marine nationale; took name of Bruly Bouabré; cited as Bruly throughout) L'invention de l'écriture, c2010: p. 31 (chose the name of Cheik Nadro, le Révélateur [the Revealer] for himself) p. 35 (had a vision in 1948 of God speaking to him in Bété, ordering him to commit his language to writing) p. 94 (created a syllabary of 449 symbols) BBC News Africa, Ivory Coast artist Frederic Bruly Bouabre dies, Jan. 29, 2014, viewed Jan. 30, 2014 (Bouabre; died aged 91; worked as a civil servant until 1948 when he had a vision, dedicated himself to art; called himself 'Cheikh Nadro', the one who never forgets; in addition to small drawings, he created an alphabet of pictograms to describe the oral traditions of his people, the Betes; his visual alphabet language was portrayed on more than 400 small cards using ballpoint pens and crayons with symbolic imagery surrounded by text) CAACart website, viewed Jan. 31, 2014 (Frédéric Bruly Bouabré; Bouabré; b. 1919, Zéprégüé, Côte d'Ivoire; lives and works in Abidjan; from his revelatory experience on Mar. 11, 1948 he became Cheik Nadro, he who does not forget) Wikipedia, Jan. 31, 2014 (Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, also known as Cheik Nadro; c. 1923 - Jan. 28, 2014; b. in Zépréguhé; among the first Ivorians to be educated by the French colonial govt.; created many of his small drawings while working as a clerk in various govt. offices) Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed April 6, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bouabré, Frédéric-Bruly; mystic, illustrator; born 1923 in Côte d'Ivoire; raised in the Daloa department of western Côte d'Ivoire; in 1948 had a celestial vision in Dakar; considered himself reborn as Cheik Nadro, or "he who does not forget," and has devoted his life to his drawing and other creative projects; achieved considerable international success in the 1980s and 1990s; his first major international show was the 1989 exhibit Magiciens de la Terre in Paris; his works were shown across Europe as well as in Japan, Mexico, and the United States; lived and worked in the city of Abidjan) |
| Associated language | fre kro Bete |
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