Emile Eugène André Dervain (1928–2010) was a Martinican-Ivorian playwright, lawyer and judge.
Émile Eugène André Dervain was born on February 4, 1928, in Saint-Esprit in central Martinique.
He married a woman from the west of the Ivory Coast, and was naturalized as Ivorian in 1967.
[1] Dervain's Saran ou la Reine scélérate (1968) was a historical play set in the early nineteenth century, in Da Monzon's semi-legendary rule over the kingdom of Ségou, and drawing on oral epic tradition.
It is only a first attempt, but the store of legend is rich: we have our Cid, our Ruy Blas, our Curiace...[2]Dervain's 1969 one-act play Abra Pokou was based on Queen Pokou, the mythical founder of the Baoulé people of the Ivory Coast.