Sokhna Benga
Senegalese novelist and poet
Sokhna Benga (born 12 December 1967, in Dakar) is a Senegalese, an author of novels, scripts, kids' books and play. She was born in 1967 in Dakar. She comes from a Muslim family of six children. Her father is a journalist and her mother a chief cashier. She studied Law at the universities of Dakar and Brest in the early-mid 1990s, specialising in Maritime Law (DESS Droit des activités maritimes). After her sojourn in France, she returned to Dakar where she now lives. After working for three years as Publishing Manager at the Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Sénégal, she is now (2006) Administrator of the Harbour Master's Office, head office of the Senegalese Merchant Service.
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- Art is a way of externalising this that I feel deep inside me that this
- What is important to me In my work is to exceed my limit to set myself challenges and be able to achieve them
- I'm happy when I finished my novel and seen my family after a good day of very exhausting works
- I wish Dakar is a clean city much more cultural
