Biography
Nimrod Bena Djangrang was born in 1950 in Chad. He attended university in Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire, where he taught in colleges and high schools. He also obtained his doctoral degree in 1996 and became the editor-in-chief of the journal Aleph for several years. He became a professor of philosophy at the University of Picardie Jules-Verne as well as the founder of the Francophile literary magazine Agotem, published by Obsidian. In 2008, he received the Édouard-Glissant Prize, intended to a significant artistic work of our time that aligned with the poetic and political values of the philosopher and writer Édouard Glissant. He also received the prestigious Apollinaire Prize for his poetry collection Petit Éloge de la Lumière Nature.
