Hamidou Dia
# Hamidou Dia

Hamidou Dia (Saldé, 1953 – February 4, 2018) was a Senegalese writer, literary critic, and philosophy teacher.

He studied philosophy in Dakar and Paris, and achieved a doctorate in French Literature at the University of Laval. He later taught philosophy in the United States, Canada and Senegal.

## Works

* Les Sanglots de l'espoir, 1987
* Le Serment, 1987
* Koumbi Saleh ou Les pâturages du ciel, 1993
* Les Remparts de la mémoire, 1999
* Poètes d'Afrique et de Antilles, 2002
* Poésie africaine et engagement, 2002
* L'Écho des jours, 2008 (with a preface by Cheikh Hamidou Kane)
* Présences, 2011
* Aboubakry Kane, le dernier fils de la Grande Royale, 2013 (co-written with Youssouph Mbargane Guissé)
