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Contes des sages
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Né avec ce siècle à Bandiagara, au pied des falaises du pays Dogon, mort en 1991 à Abidjan, Amadou Hampâté Bâ, historien, écrivain, conteur poète, penseur, frère des hommes, est surtout connu en France pour la lutte qu’il mena à l’UNESCO, de 1962 à 1970, en faveur de la réhabilitation des traditions orales africaines en tant que source authentique de connaissance et partie intégrante du patrimoine culturel de l’humanité. Appelant à une action urgente pour la récolte et le sauvetage de ces traditions orales avant que ne disparaissent leurs derniers dépositaires, il prononça cette phrase devenue si célèbre qu’on la cite parfois comme un proverbe africain : « En Afrique, quand un vieillard meurt, c’est une bibliothèque qui brûle. »
- GenresAfrican LiteratureAfrica
184 pages, Hardcover
Published July 16, 2018
About the author
Amadou Hampâté Bâ
58 books48 followersAmadou 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)
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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June 19, 2021
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January 23, 2023
ثالث قراءات العام 2023 واستمرار للرحلة الإفريقية.
حكايات جميلة وممتعة.
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August 29, 2024
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July 31, 2026
J’ai retrouvé ce recueil à partir d’un lointain souvenir d’enfance, un conte sur un roi qui voulait tuer tous les vieux, et qui est resté encré en moi.
C’est l’un de mes tous premiers souvenirs liés à la lecture, les après-midis à la bibliothèque ou dans le salon, à lire pour le plaisir avec ma tante. Je me souviens avoir insisté pour l’emprunter plusieurs fois, à chaque fois avec le même empressement.
Cet ouvrage, que j’ai retrouvé et dévoré récemment, est d’une sagesse et d’une philosophie infinie. 17 ans plus tard, il résonne et me conseille comme il l’avait fait la première fois, c’est un fleuve où chacun peut aller puiser ce qu’il l’inspire.
Merci M. Hampaté Bâ, d’avoir conservé ces magnifiques récits de l’incendie.
C’est l’un de mes tous premiers souvenirs liés à la lecture, les après-midis à la bibliothèque ou dans le salon, à lire pour le plaisir avec ma tante. Je me souviens avoir insisté pour l’emprunter plusieurs fois, à chaque fois avec le même empressement.
Cet ouvrage, que j’ai retrouvé et dévoré récemment, est d’une sagesse et d’une philosophie infinie. 17 ans plus tard, il résonne et me conseille comme il l’avait fait la première fois, c’est un fleuve où chacun peut aller puiser ce qu’il l’inspire.
Merci M. Hampaté Bâ, d’avoir conservé ces magnifiques récits de l’incendie.
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July 28, 2011« Le mot « Tiens » finit toujours par lasser celui qui le dit. Bien que dépourvu de poids physique, il pèse lourd s’il est dit trop longtemps. »
December 31, 2012
Certains contes sont bien, d'autres non. Je pense que c'est une question de goût personnel.
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