Dieudonné Gnammankou

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

Dieudonné Gnammankou
Born1963
Benin
OccupationHistorian, translator
NationalityBeninean
Alma materPatrice Lumumba University

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
  • Ember, M.; Ember, C .; Skoggard, I., eds. (2004). "The African Diaspora in Europe"". Encyclopedia of Diasporas. New York: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers.
  • "Mon voyage en Russie et en Sibérie". Caravanes : Littératures à découvrir [My travels in Russia and Siberia] (in French). Paris: Phébus. 2003. (Original in Swahili 1896)
  • Abraham Hanibal: L'aieul noir de Pouchkine [Pushkin's black ancestor] (in French). Présence africaine. 1996.

References
  1. "Dieudonné Gnammankou". africultures.com. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  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.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  3. New Statesman. New Statesman. 2005. p. 36. Retrieved 7 January 2015.



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