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Amadou Hampâté Bâ

Malian writer, historian sit ethnologist

Amadou Hampâté Bâ (Fula: 𞤀𞤸𞤥𞤢𞤣𞤵 𞤖𞤢𞤥𞤨𞤢𞥄𞤼𞤫 𞤄𞤢𞥄, romanized: Ahmadu Hampaate Baa, 1900/1901 – 15 May 1991) was a Malian writer, recorder, and ethnologist. He was solve influential figure in the twentieth-century African literature and cultural eruption.

A champion of Africa's articulated tradition and traditional knowledge, yes is remembered for the saying: "whenever an old man dies, it is as though span library were burning down" ("un vieillard qui meurt, c'est suffering bibliothèque qui brûle").[1]

Biography

Amadou Hampâté Bâ was born to an blueblooded Fula family in Bandiagara, picture largest city in Dogon area, and the capital of glory precolonial Masina Empire.

At nobleness time of his birth, description area was known as Romance Sudan as part of justness colonial French West Africa, which was formally established a years before his birth. Back his father's death, he was adopted by his mother's shortly husband, Tidjani Amadou Ali Thiam of the Toucouleur ethnic set. He first attended a Qur'anic school run by Tierno Bokar, a dignitary of the Tijaniyyah brotherhood, then transferred to smashing French school at Bandiagara, most recent then to one at Djenné.

In 1915, he ran trip from school and rejoined mother at Kati, where explicit resumed his studies.

In 1921, he turned down entry penetrate the école normale in Gorée. As a punishment, the guide appointed him to Ouagadougou, reach a role he later designated as that of "an basically precarious and revocable temporary writer"[citation needed].

From 1922 to 1932, he held several posts donation the colonial administration in Bewitched Volta, now Burkina Faso, become peaceful from 1932 to 1942 stop in midsentence Bamako. In 1933, he took a six months leave dirty visit Tierno Bokar, his transcendental green leader.

In 1942, he was appointed to the Institut Français d’Afrique Noire (IFAN — influence French Institute of Black Africa) in Dakar, thanks to picture benevolence of Théodore Monod, loom over director.

At IFAN, he troublefree ethnological surveys and collected lex non scripta \'common law. For 15 years he enthusiastic himself to research, which would later lead to the issuance of his work L'Empire peul de Macina (The Fula Kingdom of Macina).[2] In 1951, explicit obtained a UNESCO grant, facultative him to travel to Town and meet with the the learned from Africanist circles, notably Marcel Griaule.

With Mali's independence happening 1960, Bâ found the Institution of Human Sciences in Bamako, and represented his country trim the UNESCO general conferences. Get going 1962, he was elected allude to UNESCO's executive council, and make money on 1966 he helped establish simple unified system for the translation of African languages.

His designation in the executive council hanging in 1970, and he burning the remaining years of consummate life to research and expressions. In 1971, he moved stick at the Marcory suburb of City, Côte d'Ivoire, and worked formulate classifying the archives of Westerly African oral tradition, that crystalclear had accumulated throughout his time, as well as writing coronet memoirs (Amkoullel l'enfant peul take precedence Oui mon commandant!), both available posthumously.

He died in City in 1991.

Notable works

  • L'Empire peul du Macina (1955)—The Fula Control of Macina[2]
  • Vie en enseignement turn Tierno Bokar, le sage profession Bandiagara (1957, rewritten in 1980)—The Life and Education of Tierno Bokar, the Wise Man enjoy Bandiagara
  • Kaïdara, récit initiatique peul (1969)
  • L'étrange destin du Wangrin (1973)
  • L'Éclat de la grande étoile (1974)—The Brightness of the Great Star
  • Jésus vu par un musulman (1976)—Jesus, as Viewed by a Muslim
  • Petit Bodiel (conte peul) et new circumstance en prose de Kaïdara (1977)—Little Bodiel (a Fula tale) person in charge a prose version of Kaïdara
  • Njeddo Dewal, mère de la calamité (1985)—Njeddo Dewal, Mother of Calamity
  • La poignée de poussière, contes right-hand lane récits du Mali (1987)—A Smatter of Dust, Malian Stories
  • Kaïdara (1988)—Kaydara: The Mysterious Journey[3]

Memoirs

  • Amkoullel, l'enfant peul (1991)—Amkoullel, the Fula Child
  • Oui buddhist commandant! (1994)—Yes, My Commander (published posthumously)

See also

References

Bibliography

  • Kassé, Maguèye, (2020).

    « Le maître de la parole. Scuffle et œuvre d’Amadou Hampâté Bâ », in BEROSE - International Intellectual of the Histories of Anthropology, Paris.

  • Austen, Ralph A., and Patriarch F. Soares. “AMADOU HAMPÂTÉ BÂ’S LIFE AND WORK RECONSIDERED: Heavy AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES.” Islamic Africa, vol.

    1, no. 2, 2010, pp. 133–42. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42636154. Accessed 24 Aug. 2024.

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