Career
Although he was mostly recognized for his poems and folktales, Birago Diop also worked as a veterinary surgeon for the French colonial government in several West African countries. Throughout his civil service career in 1934, he collected and reworked Wolof folktales, and also wrote poetry, memoirs, and a play. He also served as the first Senegalese ambassador in Tunisia from 1960 to 1964.
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