| Intro | Beninese writer and translator |
| Is |
Historian Translator |
| From | Benin |
| Type | Social science |
| Gender | male |
| Birth |
1963, Benin |
| Age | 58 years |
Dieudonné Gnammankou (born 1963) is a Beninese historian and translator.
Gnammankou was born in 1963 in Benin. He studied in the former Soviet Union, earning a degree from the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow.
Gnammankou’s work has centered on African studies and the history of the African Diaspora.
In 1996, he published a seminal biography of the Russian military leader Abram Petrovich Gannibal. 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.
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)
- Hanibal, Abraham (1996). L’aieul noir de Pouchkine [Pushkin’s black arts] (in French). Présence africaine.