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Yambo Ouologuem Bio - English
URL: http://www.nathanielturner.com/yamboouologuem2.htm

Yambo Ouologuem -- Born 1940 in Bandiagary in the Dogon country French Sudan (now Mali), the only son of a landowner and school inspector. He learned several African languages and became fluent in French, English, and Spanish. After matriculating at a Lycée in Bamako (Mali), Yambo went to France in 1960 to continue his education there at Lycée Henry IV and from 1964 50 1966 taught at the Lycée de Clarenton in Paris and then continued his studies for a doctorate in scoiology.

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Yambo Ouologuem - English
URL: http://www.nathanielturner.com/yamboouologuem.htm

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on Violence, Truth and Black History Interviewed by Linda Kuehl

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Yambo Ouologuem: Postcolonial Writer, Islamic Militant - Christopher Wise (ed.) - English
URL: http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/mali/ouology2.htm

A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Yambo Ouologuem: Postcolonial Writer, Islamic Militant by Christopher Wise.

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Yambo Ouologuem --  Encyclopædia Britannica - English
URL: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=59175&tocid=0&query=devoir&ct=

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pseudonym Utto Rodolph Sudanese writer who was highly acclaimed for his first novel, Le Devoir de violence (1968; Bound to Violence), which received the Prix Renaudot. With this work, Ouologuem became the first African writer to receive a major French literary award.

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Ouologuem, Yambo (Litteraturnettet) - Norwegian
URL: http://www.litteraturnettet.no/o/ouologuem.yambo.asp?lang=&type=

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Yambo Ouologuem - English
URL: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ouolo.htm

Malian writer, whose first novel, Le Devoir de violence (1968, Bound to Violence), was an attack on Léopold Senghor's concept of négritude and the prevailing idealized picture of African history, which later was crystallized in Alex Haley's famous novel Roots. "I have a horror of folkloric attitudes to Africa", said the author in 1968. His satirical portrayal of African spiritual values was published to great acclaim in Paris and it received the prestigious Prix Théophraste-Renaudot. In this controversial work, Ouologuem depicted African participation in colonial rule and the role of local overlords who sold their subjects into bondage in league with Arab slave dealers.

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