Seid, Joseph Brahim
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Name (Latin)
Seid, Joseph Brahim
Date of birth
1927
Date of death
1980
Associated country
Chad
Occupation
Authors
Folklorists
Public officers
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Dictionary of African Biography, accessed March 24, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Seid, Joseph Brahim; folklorist, autobiographer/ memoirist, government official; born 1927 in Wadai, Abeche, Chad; attended classes at the local Catholic mission in the southern Chadian town of Sarh (Fort-Archambault), with a French priest (1938-1939); decided to switch from the Islamic faith of his family to Roman Catholicism; helped to establish the small Mutuelle Amicale Tchadienne political party (1945); this conservative group became the Union Démocratique Tchadienne (UDT) party; wrote collection of folktales, “Au Tchad sous les étoiles” (1962); published “Un enfant du Tchad”, an autobiographical account of his life (1967); served as minister of justice for president François Tombalbaye's increasingly brutal regime (1966-1975); died 1980 in Chad)
- Seid, Joseph Brahim. Told by starlight in Chad, 2007:eCIP t.p. (Joseph Brahim Seid) data view (b. N'Djamena, Chad, 1927; BA, law, Lyons, France)
- LC database, Jan. 30, 2007(hdg.: Seid, Joseph Brahim)