Tanella Boni

Tanella Suzanne Boni (born 1954) is an Ivorian poet and novelist.

Apart from her teaching and research activities, she was the President of the association of writers of the Côte d'Ivoire from 1991 to 1997, and later the organizer of the International Poetry Festival in Abidjan from 1998 to 2002.

She served as President of the Writers' Association of Côte d'Ivoire from 1991 to 1997[2] and organized Abidjan's International Poetry Festival from 1998 to 2002.

[4][5] In 2005, she received the Ahmadou Kourouma Prize for her novel Matins de couvre-feu (Mornings after curfew).

[5] She is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.