Amadou Koné (writer)

Amadou Koné was born in May 1953 in the small village of Tangora in the circle of Banfora, today Burkina Faso.

Grandson of Dan Kalmo whose big brother, the legendary warlord Fanhikroi, an opponent of colonial rule, was assassinated on the road leading from Banfora to Bobo Dioulasso, Amadou Kone learn very early sense of honor by his father who, exasperated by the abuses of the French settlers and the new leaders in their pay, chose to immigrate to the Ayamé region Basse, Côte d'Ivoire, where he created plantations of coffee and cocoa with his family.

These figures promise a bright future for Africa and there was no reason to doubt their parole1 " Amadou Koné was an outstanding school and university courses.

In June 1974, he obtained a degree in modern literature and African Studies option grant for the preparation of a third cycle doctorate in France.

Amadou Koné spent his first year at Limoges in the preparation of a master on the question of authenticity in literature and theater black African.

In its third year, it supports a PhD graduate of the influence of the heroic story of the African novel in French and English under the direction of Jean-Marie Grassin.

[2] The teaching and research of Amadou Koné interested in all areas of literature and African culture (novels, plays, films).

His further research is devoted to genres of African oral literature, heroic tales, epic and initiation, and their influence on the modern novel.