D.T. NianeDjibril Tamsir Niane was a historian, playwright, and short-story writer born in 1932 in Conakry, Guinea.

Niane graduated from the University of Bordeaux in France and was made an honorary professor of Howard University and the Univerity of Tokyo. He also taught at Institut Polytechnique de Conakry before joining the Basic Institute of Black Africa in Dakar, Senegal.

Niane died in 2021.

Translated from French by G.D. Pickett. Read More Read Less