In person(s)
MASA Festival in Abidjan: the place of storytelling and oral tradition
Audio 29:01
From left to right: Yacouba Konaté, Roukiatou Hampâté Bah, Adama Adepoju known as Le Taxi conteur.
© Guillaume Ploquin / RFI
By: Pascal Paradou
1 min
Amadou Hampâté Bah, Malian author born in 1901 in Bandiagara, Mali, and died in 1991 used to say that "
in Africa when an old man dies, it's a library that burns
".
Author of numerous books such as the "Peul initiation tales", his work is synonymous with oral tradition.
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What remains of Amadou Hampâté Bah's legacy today?
What place for storytellers in Africa in the age of social networks and screens?
Is the tradition of orality in disuse?
How can it be renewed?
Who are contemporary storytellers?
- Yacouba Konaté
, professor of philosophy at the Félix Houphouët-Boigny University in Abidjan and honorary president of the International Association of Art Critics (Aica)
- Roukiatou Hampâté Bah
, daughter of Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Malian writer, who died in 1991. President of the foundation of the same name in the Cocody district of Abidjan.
- Adama Adepoju
known as “taxi storyteller”, Ivorian storyteller and president of the National Federation of Theater of Côte d'Ivoire.
Program recorded on the occasion of the 2022 edition of
MASA
in Abidjan.
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