Dieudonné Gnammankou
| Dieudonné Gnammankou | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1963 Benin |
| Occupation | Historian, translator |
| Nationality | Beninean |
| Alma mater | Patrice Lumumba University |
Dieudonné Gnammankou (born 1963) is a Beninese historian and translator.[1]
Gnammankou was born in 1963 in Benin. He studied in the former Soviet Union, earning a degree from the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow.[2]
Gnammankou's work has centered on African studies and the history of the African Diaspora.[3]
In 1996, he published a seminal biography of the Russian military leader Abram Petrovich Gannibal.[3] The Russian translation coincided with the 1999 bicentennial anniversary of the birth of the writer Alexander Pushkin, Gannibal's great-grandson. Gnammankou's research, together with that of Hugh Barnes, conclusively established that Gannibal was born in Logone-Birni, Central Africa, in an area bordering Lake Chad, nowadays Cameroon.[2][3]
Major works
- Ember, M.; Ember, C .; Skoggard, I., eds. (2004). "The African Diaspora in Europe"". Encyclopedia of Diasporas. New York: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers.
- "Mon voyage en Russie et en Sibérie". Caravanes : Littératures à découvrir [My travels in Russia and Siberia] (in French). Paris: Phébus. 2003. (Original in Swahili 1896)
- Hanibal, Abraham (1996). L'aieul noir de Pouchkine [Pushkin's black arts] (in French). Présence africaine.
References
- ↑ "Dieudonné Gnammankou". africultures.com. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
- 1 2 Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Nicole Svobodny, Ludmilla A. Trigos (eds.) (2006). Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness. Northwestern University Press. p. 31. ISBN 0810119714. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- 1 2 3 New Statesman. New Statesman. 2005. p. 36. Retrieved 7 January 2015.