Dieudonné Gnammankou

Dieudonné Gnammankou
Born 1963
Benin
Occupation Historian, translator
Nationality Beninean
Alma mater Patrice Lumumba University

Dieudonné Gnammankou (born 1963) is a Beninean historian and translator.[1]

Gnammankou was born in 1963 in Benin. He studied in the former Soviet Union, earning a degree from the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow.[2]

Gnammankou's work has centered on African studies and the history of the African Diaspora.[3]

In 1996, he published a seminal biography of the Russian military leader Abram Petrovich Gannibal.[3] The Russian translation coincided with the 1999 bicentennial anniversary of the birth of the writer Alexander Pushkin, Gannibal's great-grandson. Gnammankou's research, together with that of Hugh Barnes, conclusively established that Gannibal was born in Logone-Birni, Central Africa, in an area bordering Lake Chad, nowadays Cameroon.[2][3]

Major works

References

  1. "Dieudonné Gnammankou". africultures.com. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  2. 1 2 Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Nicole Svobodny, Ludmilla A. Trigos (eds.) (2006). Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness. Northwestern University Press. p. 31. ISBN 0810119714. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 New Statesman. New Statesman. 2005. p. 36. Retrieved 7 January 2015.


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