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Germain Coffi Gadeau 🇨🇮

Germain Coffi Gadeau (Known as "Coffi Gadeau")
Playwright, Grand Chancellor of the National Order, Minister of State
Born c. 1913 🇨🇮 Gagnoa, Côte d'Ivoire
Passed Away 2000-12-15 Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Lifespan 87 years old
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"Theater is the mirror wherein a people sees both its ancient laughter and its deepest moral obligations."

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Pioneering playwright and foundational political figure who created modern Ivorian theater with landmark indigenous satirical plays and served for decades as Grand Chancellor of the National Order.

Biographical Record

Germain Coffi Gadeau was born in 1913 in Gagnoa. While studying at the École William Ponty in Senegal in the 1930s, he spearheaded indigenous theater, writing satirical plays based on Baoulé and Bété folk traditions, including Les Épousailles tragiques and Kondé Yao.

Co-founding the PDCI with Houphouët-Boigny, he was imprisoned at Grand-Bassam in 1949. After independence, he served as Minister of the Interior and for nearly three decades as the venerable Grand Chancellor of the National Order of Côte d'Ivoire.

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Williamsville Cemetery (Cimetière de Williamsville)
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
GPS: 5.3850, -4.0150
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