Fodéba Keïta
Fodéba Keïta (born January 19, 1921 in Siguiri , † May 27, 1969 in Camp Boiro ) was a Guinean writer , playwright , composer , dancer and politician .
Fodéba Keita attended secondary school in Conakry and the École normal William Ponty in Senegal ( West Africa ). With a state scholarship he went to Paris to study law in 1947 . There he founded the band Sud Jazz in 1948 . After his return to Guinea, he founded Les Ballets africains in 1950 and published the volume of poems Poèmes africains and the novel Le Maître d'école (1952).
Politically active in the RDA , Fodéba Keita worked closely with Ahmed Sékou Touré from 1956 . In 1961 Fodéba Keita was appointed Defense and Security Minister, he uncovered alleged and real plots against Sékou Touré before he himself came into the focus of investigations in 1969. Imprisoned in the notorious Camp Boiro , he was subjected to torture ("diète noire" - complete deprivation of food and fluids) and shot on May 27, 1969 without trial.
Film music
Fodéba Keïta composed the score for the first French anti-colonial film Afrique50 by the Breton filmmaker René Vautier .
See also
literature
- Fodéba Keita , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 36/1970 of August 24, 1970, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Aly Gilbert Iffono: Lexique historique de la Guinée-Conakry . L'Harmattan, Paris 1992.
- Thomas O'Toole, Janice E. Baker: Historical dictionary of Guinea . Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2005.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keïta, Fodéba |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Guinean writer, playwright, composer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Siguiri |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 27, 1969 |
| Place of death | Camp Boiro |