Freedom according to Bernard Dadié
Audio 48:30
By: Valérie Nivelon
In this year 2020, the anniversary of African independence, we are continuing the festivities with the voice of Bernard Dadié, the father of Ivorian literature. If the man left us on March 9, 2019, his liberating and poetic thought continues to question us about the meaning of history.
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Bernard Dadié is to literature what Houphouët Boigny is to politics. A guardian figure and pioneer of decolonization. The French-speaking writer was born in 1916 in Assinie, in the south-east of Côte d'Ivoire, and he died in Abidjan in 2019 at the venerable age of 103 years. Eloquent, humanist and combative, Bernard Dadié distinguished himself by writing in 1950 by publishing his first collection of poems: “Standing Africa! ". Because Bernard Dadié first fights with words. If he militates in the RDA, the African democratic gathering, if he is arrested and thrown in prison on February 6, 1949, he takes the time to reflect and chooses his weapons, made of feathers.
With the participation of Sidiki Bakaba, former director of the Palace of Culture in Abidjan, director and actor.
A program produced by Sophie Janin to the sound of the RFI archives.
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