The Independence Ball (4/6)
Audio 48:30
By: Valérie Nivelon
In 1960, 17 African countries acceded to national sovereignty! But, how did Africans experience it? How did the great intellectual and political figures of decolonization fight? Has France compromised itself to maintain its colonial hold? In six largely revisited episodes enriched with sometimes unpublished sound and musical archives, Valérie Nivelon tells you about this independence ball every Sunday at 12:10 p.m. Paris time and 10:10 UT, from July 26 to August 30, 2020.
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Episode 4 " Liberty according to Bernard Dadié"
Bernard Dadié is to literature what Houphouët Boigny is to politics. Eloquent, humanist and combative, Bernard Dadié distinguished himself by his writing in 1950 when he published his first collection of poems: “Africa upright! ". Because Bernard Dadié fights first with words. If he militates in the RDA, the African Democratic Rally, 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.
To read : The works of Bernard Dadié , published by Présence Africaine.
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