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          6. Birago Diop Biography

          1906-1989

          Writer

          At the time of his death in 1989, Birago Diop was one of Senegal's most prominent writers, and had been since he first rose to fame in the 1950s.

          Though he wrote in the French language, Diop's works drew upon the folktales of his West African nation's indigenous Wolof culture. An obituary in the Times of London praised his "deceptively simple stories" with their "many memorable animal-people and master-tricksters."

          Born on December 11, 1906, Diop came from the Ouakam area just outside of Dakar, Senegal's largest city and later its capital.

          At the time, Senegal was part of French West Africa.

          Birago Diop for "Souffles" ("Forefathers").

          The country was situated on the African bulge on the Atlantic Ocean coast, and it had once been a major slave-trading center in centuries past. Slaves were captured from the Wolof, its largest ethnic group, and from the Fula, Serer, Jola, and Mandinka ethnic groups.

          Though animist beliefs were still strong, Islam had dominated Senegal's culture si