Sissoko, Fily-Dabo

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Sissoko, Fily-Dabo
Other forms of name
Dabo Sissoko, Fily
Date of birth
1900-05-15
Date of death
1964-06-30
Associated country
Mali
Occupation
Authors
Poets
Politicians
Teachers
Associated Language
fre
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 13449886
Wikidata: Q3072278
Library of congress: n 88676077
Sources of Information
  • Assemblée nationale (Mali) website, Biographies des députés de la IVe République, viewed Apr. 10, 2014(SISSOKO (Fily-Dabo); d. June 30, 1964 in Kidal; teacher and writer as well as a politician; member of the conseil général du Soudan 1949-1953)
  • Fily-Dabo Sissoko, un grand sage africain, 2007:p. 8 (probable date of "accidental" death Feb. 12, 1964) p. 9 (b. May 15, 1900 in Horokoto, Bafoulabé [Mali], into a traditional Malinké chiefdom family) p. 18 (political leader for Soudan Français, 1945-1959) p. 89 (condemned to death Oct. 1, 1962 by popular tribunal; died along with fellow political prisoners under uncertain circumstances) p. 119 (SISSOKO, Fily-Dabo, in bibliographical references; author of Poèmes de l'Afrique noire : Feux de brousse, Harmakhis, Fleurs et chardons (1963))
  • Wikipedia, Apr. 10, 2014(Fily Dabo Sissoko; Sissoko; Dabo Sissoko; besides political career, he was a poet, essayist, and popular author, assoc. with the Negritude movement; with Hamadoun Dicko, founded in Dec. 1945 the Parti progressiste soudanais (PSP), a conservative party; in 1957 the PSP was dealt its first major electoral defeat by the US/RDA party of Modibo Keïta; Dabo Sissoko was arrested in 1962, charged with sedition, condemned to death, commuted to life imprisonment; d. under unclear circumstances while imprisoned near Kidal)
  • nuc88-130853: Author's Les noirs et la culture, 1964?(hdg. on MiEM rept.: Sissoko, Fily Dabo; usage: Fily-Dabo Sissoko)