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== Early life == |
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Son of Ismael and Sokhna Diop, Birago Diop was born on 11 December 1906 in [[Ouakam]], a neighborhood in [[Dakar]], Senegal.<ref name="Afrika-lice iza maske">{{cite book |editor1= Dragan Nedeljković |editor2= Zoran Petković |location= [[Sarajevo]] ([[SR Bosnia]], [[SFR Yugoslavia]]) |date=1979 |title=Afrika-lice iza maske: antologija savremene pripovetke crne Afrike |publisher=[[Matica srpska]]-[[Novi Sad]], & [[Misla]]-[[Skopje]], & [[ |
Son of Ismael and Sokhna Diop, Birago Diop was born on 11 December 1906 in [[Ouakam]], a neighborhood in [[Dakar]], Senegal.<ref name="Afrika-lice iza maske">{{cite book |editor1= Dragan Nedeljković |editor2= Zoran Petković |location= [[Sarajevo]] ([[SR Bosnia]], [[SFR Yugoslavia]]) |date=1979 |title=Afrika-lice iza maske: antologija savremene pripovetke crne Afrike |publisher=[[Matica srpska]]-[[Novi Sad]], & [[Misla]]-[[Skopje]], & [[Mladost]]{{dn|date=June 2021}}-[[Zagreb]], & [[Pobjeda]]-[[Titograd]], & [[Prosveta]]{{dn|date=June 2021}}-[[Belgrade]], & [[Svjetlost]]-[[Sarajevo]] |isbn= }}</ref> His mother raised him with his two older brothers, Massyla and Youssoupha; his father, for unknown reasons, disappeared two months before Diop was born. Diop's childhood exposed him to many folktales, which he later used in his literary work.<ref name="bdiop">{{cite web |url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bdiop.htm |title=Birago Diop |website=Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) |first=Petri |last=Liukkonen |publisher=[[Kuusankoski]] Public Library |location=Finland |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304213952/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bdiop.htm |archivedate=4 March 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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In 1920, Diop earned a scholarship to attend the French-speaking school Lycée Faidherbe in [[Saint-Louis, Senegal|Saint-Louis]], which was then Senegal's capital. During this time, he became fascinated with the poems and style of writing of [[Victor Hugo]], [[Charles Baudelaire]], [[Edgar Allan Poe]] and several others and began writing his own.<ref name="bdiop"/> In the late 1920s, he served as a nurse in a military hospital and later went on to study [[veterinary medicine]] at the [[University of Toulouse]] in [[France]], graduating in 1933.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Birago-Diop|title=Birago Diop {{!}} Senegalese author|access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref> |
In 1920, Diop earned a scholarship to attend the French-speaking school Lycée Faidherbe in [[Saint-Louis, Senegal|Saint-Louis]], which was then Senegal's capital. During this time, he became fascinated with the poems and style of writing of [[Victor Hugo]], [[Charles Baudelaire]], [[Edgar Allan Poe]] and several others and began writing his own.<ref name="bdiop"/> In the late 1920s, he served as a nurse in a military hospital and later went on to study [[veterinary medicine]] at the [[University of Toulouse]] in [[France]], graduating in 1933.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Birago-Diop|title=Birago Diop {{!}} Senegalese author|access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref> |
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