title: Hamidou Dia
text: # Hamidou Dia
  
  Hamidou Dia (Saldé, 1953 – February 4, 2018) was a Senegalese writer, literary critic, and philosophy teacher.
  
  He studied philosophy in Dakar and Paris, and achieved a doctorate in French Literature at the University of Laval. He later taught philosophy in the United States, Canada and Senegal.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Les Sanglots de l'espoir, 1987
  * Le Serment, 1987
  * Koumbi Saleh ou Les pâturages du ciel, 1993
  * Les Remparts de la mémoire, 1999
  * Poètes d'Afrique et de Antilles, 2002
  * Poésie africaine et engagement, 2002
  * L'Écho des jours, 2008 (with a preface by Cheikh Hamidou Kane)
  * Présences, 2011
  * Aboubakry Kane, le dernier fils de la Grande Royale, 2013 (co-written with Youssouph Mbargane Guissé)
  