Exempted from military service, he worked as an assistant teacher and was assigned as an administrator at the Professional School and the Normal Course in Niamey.
He, along with Mahamane Dan Dobi, Souleymane Ly, and Zada Niandou, significantly influenced the theatrical life in urban centers of Niger in the 1940s and 1950s.
He wrote a play titled Le Marché noir which addressed the issues of urban life in Africa.
In November 1966, he was appointed ambassador to Belgium and representative to the European Economic Community (EEC) in Brussels.
He died in a car accident while on a mission in Niamey in August 1968, leaving behind a widow, Fatou Djibo, a teacher and women's rights activist,[3] and 8 children.