Dissirama BOUTORA TAKPA is born as a twin with his brother at Pagouda in the prefecture of Binah, in the north of Togo. His late father Takpa, is a teacher who attended the school of colonial period ; his mother Kossiwa, an illiterate had as occupation, keeping the household. The profession of the teacher led his parents to live in many regions of Togo(Savanes, Kara, Plateau, Maritime) before setting in Lomé.
There, the son Dissirama studied from primary school to secondary school and got his high school graduation(GICSE) at Kpémé after a laborious period during which it was noticeable the mourning of his father who left eleven children. At high school the young Dissirama choosed sciences’ specialization completed with a training of practice in some branches of legal profession. The life of the young student changed to another aim in a morning of October, when on his way leading to the campus, he met a maid victim of maltreat : that day, Dissirama decidea to write his first novel “Journal d’une Bonne”(Haho Publisher, November 2002), an achievement which touched the jury of France-Togo competition in 2001. because of personal reasons, he left without any regret his fellows of second year of bachelor degree in low in order to devote himself in writing.
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Colonial period in Togo (family album)