by Amadou Hampaté Bâ · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782234043152
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«Contes initiatiques peuls» is the book of initiatory tales by Amadou Hampâté Bâ, published by Stock in French, with 397 pages.
It brings together two great Peul tales: «Njeddo Dewal, mère de la calamité», a struggle between good and evil featuring the sorceress Njeddo Dewal and the miracle child Bâgoumâwel, and «Kaïdara», an initiatory journey of three companions through an underground country towards the god of gold and knowledge.
Paperback edition published in 1994; includes an extensive set of notes by Amadou Hampâté Bâ on African symbolism and spirituality.
For readers interested in African oral tradition, spirituality and tales of initiation.
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.
