Christophe Wondji (Ivorian Historian)

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Sub-subject: Christophe Wondji (Historian/Ivory Coast). Syllabus:

1. Ivorian Historian Christophe Wondji
2. Black Christ of the Lagoons (The Prophet Harris)

Sample of the sub-subject: Christophe Wondji (African historian)

Sub-Subject Description: Christophe Wondji

The Ivorian historian and University Professor Christophe Wondji was born in 1937 (Ivory Coast); he died in the exile in 2015 in Paris.

1. Co-Director of Volume VIII (Africa since 1935) and Author of Volume V (Africa since the Century 16th until the 18th) of the General History of Africa of the UNESCO
2. Ex Director of the Department of History of the National University of Ivory Coast.
3. Christophe Wondji was Professor of Modern History at the University of Abidjan
4. Member of the Academy of sciences, arts, cultures of Africa and the African Diasporas (ASCAD)
5. Specialisation: the History of Africa and West Africa, the African Civilisation

The main books of Christopher Wondji:

1. Prophet Harris: Black Christ of the Lagoons
2. History and National consciousness in Africa
3. Camera Nigra, the discourse of African film
4. Popular song in Ivory Coast
5. West Coast: from Senegal to Ivory Coast: geography, society, history (1500-1800)
6. Led the drafting of the “General History of Africa” of the UNESCO.
7. History in forest lineage societies of the Ivory Coast

Christopher Wondji was an African historian of the West African Economic Area of the African Civilisation.