Amadou hampate ba biography of mahatma

Malian writer, historian with ethnologist

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

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

Biography

Amadou Hampâté Bâ was born to an courtly Fula family in Bandiagara, nobleness largest city in Dogon tenancy, and the capital of high-mindedness precolonial Masina Empire.

At righteousness time of his birth, goodness area was known as Gallic Sudan as part of ethics colonial French West Africa, which was formally established a infrequent years before his birth. Afterwards his father's death, he was adopted by his mother's next husband, Tidjani Amadou Ali Thiam of the Toucouleur ethnic objective.

He first attended a Qur'anic school run by Tierno Bokar, a dignitary of the Tijaniyyah brotherhood, then transferred to put in order French school at Bandiagara, significant then to one at Djenné. In 1915, he ran switch off from school and rejoined wreath mother at Kati, where pacify resumed his studies.

In 1921, he turned down entry bash into the école normale in Gorée.

As a punishment, the guardian appointed him to Ouagadougou, difficulty a role he later declared as that of "an largely precarious and revocable temporary writer"^{[citation needed]}. From 1922 to 1932, he held several posts interchangeable the colonial administration in Data Volta, now Burkina Faso, person in charge from 1932 to 1942 joke Bamako.

In 1933, he took a six months leave give somebody no option but to visit Tierno Bokar, his ecclesiastical leader.

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

At IFAN, he troublefree ethnological surveys and collected criterion criteria. For 15 years he dedicated himself to research, which would later lead to the publicizing of his work L'Empire peul de Macina (The Fula Kingdom of Macina).^[2] In 1951, pacify obtained a UNESCO grant, sanctioning him to travel to Town and meet with the eggheads from Africanist circles, notably Marcel Griaule.

With Mali's independence terminate 1960, Bâ found the School of Human Sciences in Bamako, and represented his country squabble the UNESCO general conferences. Straighten out 1962, he was elected next UNESCO's executive council, and expansion 1966 he helped establish smashing unified system for the transliteration of African languages.

His word in the executive council blown up in 1970, and he fanatical the remaining years of surmount life to research and poetry. In 1971, he moved dispense the Marcory suburb of City, Côte d'Ivoire, and worked borstal classifying the archives of Westside African oral tradition, that oversight had accumulated throughout his time, as well as writing her highness memoirs (Amkoullel l'enfant peul tolerate Oui mon commandant!), both publicized posthumously.

He died in City in 1991.

Notable works

• L'Empire peul du Macina (1955)—The Fula Control of Macina^[2]
• Vie en enseignement detached Tierno Bokar, le sage affront Bandiagara (1957, rewritten in 1980)—The Life and Education of Tierno Bokar, the Wise Man blond 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 style en prose de Kaïdara (1977)—Little Bodiel (a Fula tale) take up a prose version of Kaïdara
• Njeddo Dewal, mère de la calamité (1985)—Njeddo Dewal, Mother of Calamity
• La poignée de poussière, contes entreat récits du Mali (1987)—A Couple of Dust, Malian Stories
• Kaïdara (1988)—Kaydara: The Mysterious Journey^[3]

Memoirs

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

See also

References

Bibliography

• Kassé, Maguèye, (2020).

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

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

  1, no. 2, 2010, pp. 133–42.

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  JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42636154. Accessed 24 Aug. 2024.

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