| LC control no. | n 81015720 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PQ3989.2.D55 |
| Personal name heading | Diop, Birago |
| Variant(s) | Birago Diop |
| Associated country | Senegal France Tunisia |
| Birth date | 1906-12-11 |
| Death date | 1989-11-25 |
| Place of birth | Dakar (Senegal) |
| Place of death | Dakar (Senegal) |
| Field of activity | Veterinary surgery Folk literature, Wolof |
| Profession or occupation | Veterinarians Authors Folklorists Poets Ambassadors |
| Found in | Author's Leurres et lueurs, 1960. Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 12/11/06) Encyclopaedia britannica (online), viewed Feb. 25, 2016 (Birago Diop; b. Dec. 11, 1906, Dakar, French West Africa (now in Senegal); d. Nov. 25, 1989, Dakar; Senegalese poet and recorder of Wolof traditional folktales and legends; studied veterinary medicine at University of Toulouse until 1933, served as government veterinary surgeon in French Sudan (now Mali), Côte d'Ivoire, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), and Mauritania; Senegal's ambassador to Tunisia 1961-1965; active in Negritude movement in the 1930s; his autobiography, La plume raboutée, was published in 1978) |
| Associated language | fre |
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