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Sissoko, Fily-Dabo

LC control no.n 88676077
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPQ3989.2.S5
Personal name headingSissoko, Fily-Dabo
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Variant(s)Dabo Sissoko, Fily
Associated countryMali
Birth date1900-05-15
1900-05-15
Death date1964-06-30
1964-02-12?
Place of birthHorokoto (Mali)
Place of deathKidal (Mali)
AffiliationParti progressiste soudanais
Profession or occupationPoliticians Authors Poets Teachers
Found innuc88-130853: Author's Les noirs et la culture, 1964? (hdg. on MiEM rept.: Sissoko, Fily Dabo; usage: Fily-Dabo Sissoko)
Fily-Dabo Sissoko, un grand sage africain, 2007: p. 8 (probable date of "accidental" death Feb. 12, 1964) p. 9 (b. May 15, 1900 in Horokoto, Bafoulabé [Mali], into a traditional Malinké chiefdom family) p. 18 (political leader for Soudan Français, 1945-1959) p. 89 (condemned to death Oct. 1, 1962 by popular tribunal; died along with fellow political prisoners under uncertain circumstances) p. 119 (SISSOKO, Fily-Dabo, in bibliographical references; author of Poèmes de l'Afrique noire : Feux de brousse, Harmakhis, Fleurs et chardons (1963))
Assemblée nationale (Mali) website, Biographies des députés de la IVe République, viewed Apr. 10, 2014 (SISSOKO (Fily-Dabo); d. June 30, 1964 in Kidal; teacher and writer as well as a politician; member of the conseil général du Soudan 1949-1953)
Wikipedia, Apr. 10, 2014 (Fily Dabo Sissoko; Sissoko; Dabo Sissoko; besides political career, he was a poet, essayist, and popular author, assoc. with the Negritude movement; with Hamadoun Dicko, founded in Dec. 1945 the Parti progressiste soudanais (PSP), a conservative party; in 1957 the PSP was dealt its first major electoral defeat by the US/RDA party of Modibo Keïta; Dabo Sissoko was arrested in 1962, charged with sedition, condemned to death, commuted to life imprisonment; d. under unclear circumstances while imprisoned near Kidal)
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