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From: Colleen Vasconcellos <colleen@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
List Editor: Colleen Vasconcellos <colleen@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
Editor's Subject: In memoriam: Jean Bazin
Author's Subject: In memoriam: Jean Bazin
Date Written: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 10:28:37 -0500
Date Posted: Wed, 18 Dec 2001 10:28:37 -0500

Cross-posted from H-WestAfrica

Date: Thursday, December 13, 2001
From: Clemens Zobel
<clemenszobel@yahoo.fr>

Dear friends and colleagues

I have the sad task to announce that Jean Bazin, professor at the École
des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, has died yesterday of a
heart attack.

A distinguished Mande scholar, known for his many brilliant articles on
the history of the kingdom of Segu, and participant at the first Mande
Studies conference at the SOAS in 1973, the premature and sudden death of
Prof. Bazin represents a great loss for many of us.

As an adopted Diabaté I can just express my tribute by citing the proverb:
"saya be se mogo la, nka a te se mogo togo la" (people can't resist death,
but death can't win a victory over a person's name).

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