Djibril Tamsir Niane

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Djibril Tamsir Niane is a historian, playwright, and short story writer born January 9, 1932 in Conakry, Guinea. His secondary education was in Senegal and his degree from the University of Bordeaux. He is an honorary professor of Howard University and the University of Tokyo. He is noted for introducing the story of Sundiata to the Western world in 1960 by translating the story told to him by griot Djeli Mamoudou Kouyate. He also edited the UNESCO General History of Africa and did other UNESCO projects.

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• African database
• Britannica
• Article he wrote for UNESCO in 1984