Tadjo is currently based in Johannesburg, where since 2007 she has been head of French Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has lived in Paris, Lagos, Mexico City, Nairobi and London. In the past few years, she has facilitated workshops in writing and illustrating children's books in Mali, Benin, Chad, Haiti, Mauritius, French Guyana, Burundi, Rwanda and South Africa. She subsequently became a lecturer at the English department of the University of Abidjan until 1993. In 1979, Tadjo chose to teach English at the Lycée Moderne de Korhogo (secondary school) in the North of Côte d'Ivoire. In 1983, she went to Howard University in Washington, D.C., on a Fulbright research scholarship. Tadjo completed her BA degree at the University of Abidjan and her doctorate at the Sorbonne in African-American Literature and Civilization. Brought up in Abidjan, she travelled widely with her family. Having lived and worked in many countries within the African continent and diaspora, she feels herself to be pan-African, in a way that is reflected in the subject matter, imagery and allusions of her work.īorn in Paris, Véronique Tadjo was the daughter of an Ivorian civil servant and a French painter and sculptor. Véronique Tadjo (born 1955) is a writer, poet, novelist, and artist from Côte d'Ivoire.
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