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  • Ivorian novelist, playwright, and poet Bernard Dadié has passed on.

    Ivorian novelist, playwright, and poet Bernard Dadié has passed on.

    Cote D’Ivoire novelist, playwright, and poet Bernard Dadié passed away on March 9, 2019. Bernard Dadié was a prolific writer whose work was in several literary genres including poetry, prose fiction, chronicles, traditional tales, and theatre. He received several awards in recognition of his literary career, with one of the last being the “Grand Prix…