by Amadou Hampâté Bâ · Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266157889
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«Petit Bodiel: Et autres contes de la savane» is a collection of tales by Amadou Hampâté Bâ published by Pocket in paperback (217 pages, in French).
The title story follows Petit Bodiel, a young and ambitious hare who longs to reign over the savannah and asks God for the gift of cunning and miraculous powers to change his destiny. It is accompanied by fables and legends of the Fulani people, oral tales that recover the cultural memory of West Africa.
Number 12842 in the Pocket collection. The edition is from 2006; the original work was published in 1976.
For readers interested in African oral literature and traditional fables; also serves as an introduction to Fulani culture.
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.
