François-Joseph Amon d'Aby

François-Joseph Amon d'Aby (17 July 1913 – 10 January 2007) was a French-language playwright and essayist in the Côte d'Ivoire.

Life Amon d'Aby started work in the government archives in 1937, rising to become their director.

He was a pioneer of Ivorian theatre. He wrote plays for several organizations: Le Théâtre Indigène de la Côte d'Ivoire, which he founded with Germain Coffi Gadeau in 1938; the Cercle Culturel et Folklorique de la Côte d'Ivoire, which he, Gadeau and Bernard Dadié founded in 1953; and the Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne [Young Christian Workers' Association]. Though his earlier plays were based upon Ivorian oral literature, his later plays also borrowed from European traditions.

Amon d'Aby also edited collections of folk tales, and published several cultural and sociological studies of the Côte d'Ivoire.

Works La Côte d'Ivoire dans la cité africaine, 1951 Le problème des chefferies traditionnelles en Côte d'Ivoire, 1958 Croyances religieuses et coutumes juridiques des Agni de la côte d'Ivoire, 1960 (ed.) Le théatre populaire en République de Côte d'Ivoire : oeuvres choisies, 1966 La mare aux crocodiles: contes et légendes populaires de Côte d'Ivoire, 1973 Proverbes populaires de Côte d'Ivoire, 1984 Le murmure du roi: recueil de dix contes, 1984

Plays Kwao Adjoba. ou Procès du régime matriarchal en Basse Côte d'Ivoire [Kwao Adjoba, or the trial of the Matriarchal System of Lower Ivory Coast], 1953 Entrave [Shackles], 1955 La Couronne aux Enchères [The Auction Ring], 1956