Titinga Frédéric Pacéré

Titinga Frédéric Pacéré (born 1943) is a Burkinabé solicitor, writer, poet and griot and founder and curator of the Musée de Manega museum in Burkina Faso. He studied in Abidjan. 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). Provided by Wikipedia