by Ba Hampate · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782290306413
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«Amkoullel, l'enfant Peul» is a memoir by Amadou Hampâté Bâ, published by Editions 84 in paperback (442 pages, in French).
Amadou Hampâté Bâ recalls his childhood as Amkoullel, a Fulani boy in early 20th-century West Africa, immersed in an oral culture undergoing profound change. Between the French school and the Koranic one, he listens to elders and masters of the word and witnesses the changes brought by colonization and war.
The work was originally published in 1991 and won the Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique Noire de l'ADELF. This edition was released on April 12, 2000.
For readers of memoirs and African literature who want to approach the oral tradition of the Fulani people through its great storytellers.
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.
