Maurice Delafosse

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Fragment of Delafosse's (1904) linguistic map highlighting Nafaanra ('Nafana') in the borderland of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.
Fragment of Delafosse's (1904) linguistic map highlighting Nafaanra ('Nafana') in the borderland of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.

Maurice Delafosse (December 20, 1870 - November 13th, 1926) was a French ethnographer and colonial official who also worked in the field of the languages of Africa. In a review of his daughter's autobiography of him he was described as "one of the most outstanding French colonial administrators and ethnologists of his time."[1] Delafosse had disagreements with the French government over the administration of French Africa, and, as a result, was "more or less banned from the colonies" for a large part of his life.[2]

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  1. ^ Cohen, William B. (1978). "Untitled". The International Journal of African Historical Studies 11 (2): 302–305. doi:10.2307/217447. ISSN 03617882. 
  2. ^ Arnaut, Karel. Maurice Delafosse. Entre orientalisme et ethnographie : l'itinéraire d'un africaniste (1870-1926). Cahiers d'études africaines. Retrieved on 2007-03-29.

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