Dieudonné Gnammankou

Dieudonné Gnammankou (born 1963) is a Beninese historian and translator.

Gnammankou was born in 1963 in Côte d'Ivoire. He studied in the former Soviet Union, earning a Master of Arts degree (Russian Philology and Literature, Russian Language and Literature Teacher) and a degree of Russian-French translator in 1990 from the Patrice Lumumba University /People's Friendship University in Moscow (he is listed among the 20 Notable Alumni since 1960) Peoples' Friendship University of Russia; and in France, obtaining a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies, DEA, in Paris National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO-Langues O) in 1991. He earned a PhD in History and Civilizations in 2000 at the Paris School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, EHESS.

Gnammankou's work has centered on African studies and the history of the African Diaspora.

In 1996, he published a seminal biography of the Russian military leader Abram Petrovich Gannibal.

Major works

(Original in Swahili 1896) (Translated into English)