by Amadou Hampâté Bâ · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782868697349
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«Amkoullel, l'enfant Peul» is the first volume of memoirs by Amadou Hampâté Bâ, published by Actes Sud in 1991 (409 pages, in French).
Amadou Hampâté Bâ recalls his childhood in Mali and the education he received within the oral tradition of the Fulani. Through tales, maxims and family memories, he reconstructs the world of the Niger bend and the roots that shaped his identity and his vocation as a transmitter of African memory.
First volume of the author's memoirs (Mémoires I); work awarded the Prix Tropiques 1991.
For readers interested in the history of West Africa, oral tradition and autobiographical memoirs.
Amadou Hampâté Bâ was a Malian writer, historian, and ethnologist. He was an influential figure in the twentieth-century African literature and cultural heritage. A champion of Africa's oral tradition and traditional knowledge, he is remembered for his 1960 address to the UNESCO General Conference in which he urged the preservation of Africa's oral traditions, declaring: "I consider the death of each of these traditionalists as the burning of an unexploited cultural fund". A later formulation using the word bibliothèque emerged during a 1962 UNESCO Executive Board exchange.
