About François Bassolet
Lived 1933 – 2001 (aged 67–68). François Bassolet was a journalist and writer.
François Djobi Bassolet (1933- 2 July 2001) was a Burkinabé journalist, historian, and cultural leader.
Career Bassolet was the first director of the Agence voltaïque de Presse (AVP) from 1978 to 1981, which was later renamed the "Agence d'Information du Burkina" (AIB). He was one of the founders of the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), and the author of the first major post-independence history of the nation.
Selected works François D. Bassolet, Évolution de la Haute-Volta, de 1898 au 3 janvier 1966 (1968).
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Burkinabe journalist
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François Bassolet was born in 1933.
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François Bassolet died in 2001.
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