Seydou Badian Kouyaté

Seydou Badian Kouyaté is a writer and politician Mali into born with Bamako in 1928.

After studies of medicine to the University of Montpellier in France, it returns to the Mali. Near to the first president Modibo Keïta, he writes the words of the national anthem: For Africa and you, Mali. He is named Minister for economic and financial Coordination and the Plan on September 17th 1962 At the time of the coup d'etat of Foamed Traoré in 1968, it is off-set with Kidal then is exiled with Dakar with the Senegal.

Militant of the first hour of the Union African democratic Sudanese woman-Gathering, it had been erased by it in 1998 to be itself opposite with part of the direction which preached to it not recognition of the institutions at the time of the disputed elections.

Internationally recognized writer, it publishes before the independence of Mali, in 1957, its first novel entitled Under the storm . Two other novels will be published then, the Blood of the masks in 1976 and crowned Noces in 1977.

In October 2007, Seydou Badian Kouyaté publishes a novel entitled the Season of the traps .

Works

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