Mame Seck Mbacké Explained

Mame Seck Mbacké
Birth Place:	Gossas, Senegal
Nationality:	Senegalese
Alma Mater:	Institute of Higher International Studies Sorbonne
Occupation:	Writer

Mame Seck Mbacké (October 1947 – December 24, 2018) was a Senegalese writer. She wrote in French and in Wolof.^[1]

Biography

She was born in Gossas. Mbacké studied Social and Economic Development at the Institute of Higher International Studies in Paris. She worked as a diplomat in France and Morocco, then as a social worker at the Senegalese consulate in Paris. In Paris, she completed an International Relations degree at the Sorbonne and post-graduate studies in public health and nutrition at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University. She later worked for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Dakar.^{[2] [3]}

Her short story "Mame Touba" was included in the anthology Anthologie de la Nouvelle Sénégalaise (1970–1977).^[2]

Mbacké established the publishing house Éditions Sembene in 2006.^[1]

Awards

In 1999, she received the Premier Prix de Poésie from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Senegal.^[2]

Selected works^[2]

• Le chant des Séanes, poetry (1987)
• Poèmes en Etincelles, poetry (1999)
• Pluie – Poésie Les Pieds Sur La Mer, poetry (2000)
• Le Froid et le Piment, novel (2000)
• Qui est ma Femme?, play (2000)
• Les Alizés de la Souffrance: Poèmes, poetry (2001)
• Lions de la Teranga: L’Envol Sacré, poetry (2006)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Décès de l'écrivaine Mme Mame Seck MBACKE . December 25, 2018 . Ministre de la Culture du Sénégal . fr.
2. Web site: Interviews . Alumni and friends . University of Warwick.
3. Web site: Mame Seck Mbacké . Francophone African Women Writers . University of Western Australia.