Bernard Binlin Dadié

Bernard Binlin Dadié (10 January 1916 – 9 March 2019) was an Ivorian novelist, playwright, poet, and administrator. He was the Minister of Culture in the government of Ivory Coast from 1977 to 1986. He was born in Assinie, Ivory Coast. He wrote folktales about colonialism. 

Dadié's works were seen in Steven Spielberg's 1997 movie Amistad where the text of Dadié's poem, "Dry Your Tears, Afrika" (“Sèche Tes Pleurs“) was used for a song of the same name. 

He turned 100 in January 2016 and died in Abidjan on 9 March 2019 at the age of 103.Deuil : l'écrivain Bernard Dadié est décédé

Dadié received several awards in recognition of his literary career, with one of the last being the Grand Prix des Mécènes of the GPLA in 2016.

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