David Boilat
The abbot David Boilat (1814 - 1901) is one of the first writers Senegal board to have described the history and the company sénégalaises of his time.
Biography
Born on April 23rd, 1814 with Saint-Louis (Senegal) from a French father and a mother Signare, it will be sent in formation in France to prepare with becoming teaching in Senegal. First mongrel priest, it receives his ordination in 1841.
The Bouët-Willaumetz governor asks him to take the direction of teaching in 1843. He will create a secondary school but vis-a-vis difficulties with the teaching personnel, he withdraws himself in 1845, marked immorality by other congregations.
David Boilat is regarded as one of the first Senegalese writers who could write on the customs and habits of his country. By its double culture and its knowledge of the wolof and sérère, it will make a study on the history of Senegal through its illustrated book of its own drawings: Drafts Sénégalaises .
Then in 1853, it leaves for France and will continue to be cleaned.
He dies in Nantouillet, in France, in 1901.
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