Jean-Marie Gibbal

Born in 1938, he is an ethnologist, poet, art critic. Researcher at the CNRS, he works on Africa by the urban areas of Togo and Côte d'Ivoire, and then Mali. "Mali took me when I really got into it in 1971," he says in Tambours d'eau (1982), his investigative journal devoted to a religious institution in the Kayes and Bamako regions.