Background
Gnammankou was born in 1963 in Benin.
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Dieudonne Gnammankou
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He studied in the former Soviet Union, earning a degree from the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow.
Career
Gnammankou"s work has centered on African studies and the history of the African Diaspora. In 1996, he published a seminal biography of the Russian military leader Abram Petrovich Gannibal. 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.
