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Dieudonné Gnammankou (born 1963) is a Beninese historian and translator.[1]

Dieudonné Gnammankou
Born	1963 Benin
Occupation	Historian, translator
Nationality	Beninean
Alma mater	Patrice Lumumba University

Gnammankou was born in 1963 in Benin. He studied in the former Soviet Union, earning a degree from the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow.[2]

Gnammankou's work has centered on African studies and the history of the African Diaspora.[3]

In 1996, he published a seminal biography of the Russian military leader Abram Petrovich Gannibal.[3] The Russian translation coincided with the 1999 bicentennial anniversary of the birth of the writer Alexander Pushkin, Gannibal's great-grandson. Gnammankou's research, together with that of Hugh Barnes, conclusively established that Gannibal was born in Logone-Birni, Central Africa, in an area bordering Lake Chad, nowadays Cameroon.[2][3]

Major works

• Ember, M.; Ember, C .; Skoggard, I., eds. (2004). "The African Diaspora in Europe"". Encyclopedia of Diasporas. New York: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers.
• "Mon voyage en Russie et en Sibérie". Caravanes : Littératures à découvrir [My travels in Russia and Siberia] (in French). Paris: Phébus. 2003. (Original in Swahili 1896)
• Abraham Hanibal: L'aieul noir de Pouchkine [Pushkin's black ancestor] (in French). Présence africaine. 1996.

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