Maximilien Quenum-Possy-Berry [SEP] position held
Maximilien Quenum-Possy-Berry
Maximilien Quenum-Possy-Berry, Légion d'honneur (born December 5, 1911 in Cotonou, Dahomey, now Benin; died October 21, 1988 in Paris) was a politician who served as a Senator of the Fourth Republic, representing Dahomey in the French Senate from 1955 to 1958. He was also a teacher of philosophy and a writer on ethnology. The writer Olympe Bhely-Quenum is his nephew.
Writings.
His book "Légendes africaines: Côte d'Ivoire, Soudan,
Olympe Bhely-Quenum
Olympe Bhêly-Quénum (born 20 September 1928) is a Beninese writer, journalist and magazine editor. He is the nephew of anthropologist Maximilien Quenum-Possy-Berry.
Born in Ouidah, Benin (formerly Dahomey), Bhêly-Quénum had his primary education in Benin from 1938 to 1944, after which he traveled throughout his native country, Nigeria, his maternal grandmother's country, and Ghana, where he learned English. In 1948 he went to France and undertook his secondary studies at