Life and Career
Boubacar Boris Diop is born in Dakar in 1946. He teaches literature and philosophy in several Senegalese high schools. He becomes technical advisor at the Cultural Ministry of Senegal. He starts working as a journalist and writer; he collaborates with local newspapers, with the Swiss magazine Neue Zürcher Zeitung and with the Paris-based magazine Afrique, perspectives et réalités.
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