found: Agence DEKart website, Dieudonné Gnammankou, l'historien panafricain de tous les âges, mai 2018?, viewed October 8, 2019(Dieudonné Gnammankou, born in 1963 in Tanda, Côte d'Ivoire; of Mahi origin, an ethnic group of southern Benin; after obtaining his baccalauréat he decided to return to his country; entered military service in 1983, assigned to teach at the collège Notre Dame de Cotonou; obtained Soviet Union scholarship, left for Moscow in August 1984; Master of Art 1990, Université de l'Amitié des Peuples Patrice Lumumba, Russia; became an independent researcher; presented at the Unesco conference "La Route de l'Esclave" in Ouidah, Benin, 1994; created publishing house, Dagan Editions, in 2008 in Paris, lived in France for 25 years; in 2016 he returned to Benin with his wife Joëlle Esso (Cameroonian vocal artist) and their children, settled in Porto-Novo; since then he is teacher-researcher at Département d'Histoire et d'Archéologie, Université d'Abomey-Calavi; he and his wife created the Centre Akangan, a cultural space dedicated to African as well as world literature; in 2017 they organized the first "Fête du livre de Porto-Novo")