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The Library, Documentation and Information Department of the African
Studies Centre Leiden has compiled this web dossier to coincide with a
workshop on Amadou Hampâté Bâ which was held at the African
Studies Centre on 17-18 September 2007. The dossier begins with a brief
introduction outlining the issues which were discussed during the
workshop. This is followed by a selection of titles by and on Amadou
Hampâté Bâ from the ASC library collection. Each title links directly to
the corresponding record in the library’s
online
catalogue, which provides further details, as well as abstracts of
articles and edited works. The dossier concludes with a selection of web
resources.
1. Introduction
2.
Publications by Amadou Hampâté Bâ
3.
Publications on Amadou Hampâté Bâ or his work
4. Selected web resources
For further information, please email us at
asclibrary@ascleiden.nl or
phone +31 (0)71 527 3354.
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Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1900-1991) was one of the major intellectual and
literary figures of twentieth-century Africa. A historian and collector
and translator of oral and ethnological texts, he was also a poet in his
native Fulfulde and the author of prize-winning and widely-read literary
works (two volumes of his memoirs and a novel set in colonial French
West Africa), as well as a spokesperson for Sufi understandings of Islam
and religious ecumenism. He was eventually named to the UNESCO executive
council, and he even served as Mali’s ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire. In
the course of his career he assembled a very large personal archive.
Today many engage with Hampâté Bâ’s published works, which have been
translated from French into several European languages, as well as
Japanese.
The issues raised by the study of a figure like Hampâté Bâ are numerous,
though one of the central questions is the notion of African “tradition”
in various senses of the term. Hampâté Bâ is perhaps best known for his
oft-quoted statement: “Every time an old man dies in Africa, it is as if
a library has burnt down” (“En Afrique, quand un vieillard meurt, c’est
une bibliothèque qui brûle”). Hampâté Bâ claimed to be a medium for
preserving and transmitting/translating this oral knowledge and art in
Africa to various audiences.
The workshop “Reconsidering the Oeuvre of Amadou Hampâté Bâ” at the
African Studies Centre Leiden on 17-18 September 2007 brought together scholars from Africa, Europe and North America who have been
working on the oeuvre of Hampâté Bâ. The workshop participants,
including scholars of literature, historians, social scientists, and
philosophers explored how Hampâté Bâ’s representations of African
culture (especially that of his own Fulbe community) were formulated and
constructed, how they related to his more immediate concerns with
religion and politics in colonial and postcolonial Africa, his relations
with Muslim religious leaders and secular political figures in his
native Mali and Côte d’Ivoire, and his collaboration with various
European and African brokers of African culture. In addition, the
objective was to critically reflect upon the enduring and changing
interest in Hampâté Bâ’s work.
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Contes initiatiques peuls : Njeddo Dewal, mère de la calamité :
Kaïdara / Amadou Hampâté Bâ. - Paris : Stock, cop. 1994
Jésus vu par un musulman / Amadou Hampâté Bâ. - Paris : Stock,
cop. 1994
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"L'étrange destin de Wangrin" and the problematic representation of the
African bourgeoisie / Mohamed Kamara In: JALA: (2007), vol. 1, no. 1, p.
187-201
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Boubou Hama et Amadou Hampaté Bâ : la négritude des sources /
Juvénal Ngorwanubusa. - Paris : Publisud [etc.], cop. 1993. -
(Collection littéraires) (Traverses des espaces francophones, ISSN
1140-1745)
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Aspects of African Civilization (Person, Culture, Religion)
Text of the work by Amadou Hampâté Bâ, translated by Susan B. Hunt.
Originally published as ‘Aspects de la civilisation africaine: personne,
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Tierno Bokar
Site of Columbia University dedicated to the production by director Peter
Brook and his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation (CICT),
of Tierno Bokar, a theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance, based
on Amadou Hampâté Bâ’s work ‘The Life and Teaching of Tierno Bokar: The Sage
of Bandiagara’ (translation of: ‘Vie et enseignement de Tierno Bokar: le
sage de Bandiagara’, Paris : Présence africaine, 1957)
Amadou Hampâté Bâ
Article from Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia. Based on a translation of
the corresponding article in the French Wikipedia, accessed in April 2005.
Contains a biography, bibliography, quotes, and links.
Bâ, Amadou Hampaté 1901-1991
Selected bibliography of works by Hampaté Bâ and publications about Hampaté
Bâ and his work from the Literary Map of Africa site, edited by Miriam
Conteh-Morgan, Ohio State University.
Mali
Country pages on Mali from the subject guide to internet resources on
sub-Saharan Africa maintained by Karen Fung, Standford University.
Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa
Web dossier compiled by the Library of the African Studies Centre Leiden in
May 2005.
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