Ciarcia, Gaetano
The Poetic and Anthropological Worlds of an Escapee. Notes in Memory of Émile Désiré Ologoudou (1935-2019)
- 2021.
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This text is both a tribute to the Beninese sociologist and poet Émile Désiré Ologoudou, who died in 2019, and a reflection on a prolific intellectual figure. Through his scientific and literary productions, his political commitments, his travels, his exchanges with other researchers, and his involvement in the contemporary cultural institution of the Vodun cults, Émile Ologoudou’s biography unfolded at the crossroads of contrasting identity formations.