Titinga Frédéric Pacéré (born 1943) is a Burkinabé

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...

 solicitor

Solicitor

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, writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

, poet

Poet

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 and griot

Griot

A griot or jeli is a West African storyteller. The griot delivers history as a poet, praise singer, and wandering musician. The griot is a repository of oral tradition. As such, they are sometimes also called bards...

 and founder and curator of the Musée de Manega

Musée de Manega

Musée de Manega or Manega Museum is a museum located 55 km northwest of the city Ouagadougou, in the village of Manega, Burkina Faso...

 museum in Burkino Faso. He studied in Abidjan

Abidjan

Abidjan is the economic and former official capital of Côte d'Ivoire, while the current capital is Yamoussoukro. it was the largest city in the nation and the third-largest French-speaking city in the world, after Paris, and Kinshasa but before Montreal...

. He has written over twenty books and published 60 volumes and has been awarded the medal of honour of the Association of French speaking writers (A.D.E.L.F.).

He was awarded the 1982 Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique Noire for two of his works, Poèmes pour l'Angola (1982) and La Poésie des griots (1982). Other works include Refrains sous le Sahel (1976), Quand s'envolent les grues couronnées (1976), and Du lait pour une tombe (1984).

Works

• Ça tire sous le Sahel 1976
• Refrains sous le Sahel 1976
• Quand s'envolent les grues couronnées 1976
• La poésie des griots 1983
• Poème pour l'Angola 1983
• Saglengo, la poésie du tam-tam 1994
• Problématique de l'aide aux pays sous-développés 1976
• Ainsi on a assassiné tous les Mossé 1979
• Le langage des tam-tams et des masques en Afrique 1992