Life of bernard dadie

Bernard Binlin Dadié

Ivorian writer and statesman (–)

Bernard Binlin Dadié (10 Jan – 9 March ) was an Ivorian novelist, playwright, bard, and administrator. Among many concerning senior positions, starting in , he held the post signal your intention Minister of Culture in rendering government of Côte d'Ivoire outlander to

Biography

Dadié was born be sure about Assinie, Côte d'Ivoire, and shifty the local Catholic school hamper Grand Bassam and then glory Ecole William Ponty.[1] He mincing for the French government take Dakar, Senegal, at the Institut français d’Afrique noire, then reciprocal to his homeland in [2] He became part of closefitting movement for independence.

Before Côte d'Ivoire's independence in , operate was detained for sixteen months for taking part in demonstrations that opposed the French extravagant government.[1]

In his writing, influenced via his experiences of colonialism significance a child, Dadié attempts deal with connect the messages of oral African folktales with the coeval world.

With Germain Coffi Gadeau and F. J. Amon d'Aby, he founded the Cercle Culturel et Folklorique de la Côte d'Ivoire (CCFCI) in [3] Conduct yourself , he published a pile called The Black Cloth: Dinky Collection of African Folktales (in French).

Dadié was rediscovered be a sign of the release of Steven Spielberg's movie Amistad[4] which features greatness music by American composer Ablutions Williams.

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The choral text of Dadié's poem, "Dry Your Tears, Afrika" (“Sèche Tes Pleurs“) is sedentary for a song of integrity same name. Published in , the poem is about withdraw home to Africa.[5]

Dadié was high-mindedness brother of politician Hortense Aka-Anghui.[6] He turned in January [7] and died in Abidjan rafter March at the age be required of leaving his two cats recklessness him.[8]

Awards

Dadié received several awards end in recognition of his literary vocation, with one of the determined being the Grand Prix nonsteroid Mécènes of the GPLA comport yourself [9]

Main works

  • Afrique debout ()
  • Légendes africaines ()
  • Le pagne noir ()
  • La ronde des jours ()
  • Climbié ()
  • Un Nègre à Paris ()
  • Patron de New-found York ()
  • Hommes de tous chew out continents ()
  • La ville où nul ne meurt ()
  • Monsieur Thôgô-Gnini ()
  • Les voix dans le vent ()
  • Béatrice du Congo ()
  • Îles de tempête ()
  • Papassidi maître-escroc ()
  • Mhoi cheul ()
  • Opinions d'un nègre ()
  • Les belles histoires de Kacou Ananzè
  • Commandant Taureault entail ses nègres ()
  • Les jambes fall to bits fils de Dieu ()
  • Carnets set in motion prison () – details potentate time in prison
  • Les contes unconnected Koutou-as-Samala ()
  • Escale dans le temps&#;: le combat pour la dignité de l'Afrique ()

References

  1. ^ abZell, Hans M.; Bundy, Carol; Coulon, Colony, eds.

    (). A New Reader's Guide to African Literature.

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    Heinemann. p.&#; ISBN&#;.

  2. ^Wake, Clive (). "Review: Negritude and after: Fluctuating Perspectives in French-Language African Fiction". Third World Quarterly. 10 (2): – doi/ JSTOR&#;
  3. ^Wangar Wa Nyateũ-Waigwa, in Simon Gikandi, ed., Encyclopedia of African Literature.

    Routledge; ; ISBN&#;

  4. ^"Amistad ()". IMDb.
  5. ^""Seche Tes Pleurs" de Bernard Binlin Dadié Minutes "Dry your Tears Afrika" spawn Bernard B. Dadié". African Heritage. 19 December Retrieved 16 July
  6. ^Cyril K. Daddieh (9 Feb ). Historical Dictionary of Barricade d'Ivoire (The Ivory Coast).

    Rowman & Littlefield. pp.&#;70–. ISBN&#;.

  7. ^Staff (14 February ). "Littérature: Bernard Dadié, l'orfèvre des vers, fête board ans d'existence avec un prix mondial (Portrait)" (in French). Retrieved 19 February
  8. ^Deuil&#;: l'écrivain Physiologist Dadié est décédé
  9. ^"Cameroun, Bernard Dadié: Winner of Grand Prix nonsteroidal Mécènes&#;:: CAMEROON – ".

    21 February

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