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Cuentos de los sabios de África

Name: Cuentos de los sabios de África (Orientalia)
Rating: 4.1 (6 reviews)
ISBN: 9788449324390

Una deliciosa serie para descubrir la sabiduría de los pueblos del mundo Los cuentos, las leyendas, las fábulas..., en definitiva, la tradición oral, siempre han sido una excelente fuente de conocimientos. Además, a diferencia de las enseñanzas religiosas y filosóficas transmitidas a través de libros, los cuentos poseen la capacidad de entretener. Posiblemente, gracias a la virtud de la diversión, nuestra mente retiene fácilmente la moraleja de la leyenda o fábula. Éste no es un libro para ser leído sino para ser frecuentado, como un amigo íntimo, secreto. Puede pedirle que le sustente, y le sustentará, que le alumbre, y le alumbrará, que le conmueva, que juegue, y jugará con usted al juego más misterioso del mundo el del azar que no existe.

GenresAfrican LiteratureAfrica

192 pages, Hardcover

Published November 4, 2010

About the author

Amadou Hampâté Bâ

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Amadou Hampâté Bâ was born to an aristocratic Fula family in Bandiagara, the largest city in Dogon territory and the capital of the precolonial Masina Empire. After his father's death, he was adopted by his mother's second husband, Tidjani Amadou Ali Thiam of the Toucouleur ethnic group. He first attended the Qur'anic school run by Tierno Bokar, a dignitary of the Tijaniyyah brotherhood, then transferred to a French school at Bandiagara, then to one at Djenné. In 1915, he ran away from school and rejoined his mother at Kati, where he resumed his studies.

In 1921, he turned down entry into the école normale in Gorée. As a punishment, the governor appointed him to Ouagadougou with the role he later described as that of "an essentially precarious and revocable temporary writer". From 1922 to 1932, he filled several posts in the colonial administration in Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso and from 1932 to 1942 in Bamako. In 1933, he took a six month leave to visit Tierno Bokar, his spiritual leader.(see also:Sufi studies)

In 1942, he was appointed to the Institut Français d’Afrique Noire (IFAN, French Institute of Black Africa) in Dakar thanks to the benevolence of Théodore Monod, its director. At IFAN, he made ethnological surveys and collected traditions. For 15 years he devoted himself to research, which would later lead to the publication of his work L'Empire peul de Macina (The Peul Empire of Macina). In 1951, he obtained a UNESCO grant, allowing him to travel to Paris and meet with intellectuals from Africanist circles, notably Marcel Griaule.

With Mali's independence in 1960, Bâ founded the Institute of Human Sciences in Bamako, and represented his country at the UNESCO general conferences. In 1962, he was elected to UNESCO's executive council, and in 1966 he helped establish a unified system for the transcription of African languages.

His term in the executive council ended in 1970, and he devoted the remaining years of his life to research and writing. He moved to Abidjan, and worked on classifying the archives of West African oral tradition that he had accumulated throughout his lifetime, as well as writing his memoirs (Amkoullel l'enfant peul and Oui mon commandant!, both published posthumously).

(source: Wikipedia)

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