Abdoulaye Mamani

Abdoulaye Mamani (* 1932 in Goudoumaria , † June 3, 1993 in Niger ) was a Nigerien writer and politician .

Life

Abdoulaye Mamani was the son of a small farmer in the east of the French Niger colony. He began to be politically active at a young age and was a founding member of the left-wing Sawaba party of Djibo Bakary . In 1956 he became a member of the Grand Conseil of French West Africa in Accra . In 1958 he competed against Hamani Diori in the constituency of Zinder and won. Conservative Hamani Diori, Djibo Bakary's fiercest rival, was an influential figure and the election was voided. In 1958, the ruling Sawaba party lost a referendum on Niger's immediate independence, and when the country finally gained independence from France in 1960, Hamani Diori became its first president.

It was dangerous for Djibo Bakary and his followers to stay in the country and Abdoulaye Mamani also spent the years 1960 to 1974 in exile. He stayed in Ghana until the fall of Kwame Nkrumah in 1966, then traveled to Guinea and then to Mali , where he remained until the fall of Modibo Keïta in 1968. He then received asylum from Head of State Houari Boumedienne in Algeria , where he was involved in the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale . He made many trips to other countries, including coming to Harlem at the invitation of the Black Panther Party . Mamani was still active for the Sawaba party. He headed the Sawaba office in Algiers and was responsible for controlling the Sawaba recruits, buying weapons, and delivering weapons to the Sawaba base in Ghana. As a political journalist, he wrote for syndicalist newspapers such as Talaka, among others . His first literary publications also appeared during his time in Algeria. In 1972 the Poèmérides came out, a collection of 30 autobiographically tinged poems that were close to Négritude .

In 1974 Seyni Kountché deposed Hamani Diori as president in a coup and Abdoulaye Mamani returned to Niger that same year. However, Kountché had him arrested as early as 1976 for political reasons. After his release from prison, Mamani published his best-known literary work, Sarraounia, in 1980 . The historical novel describes the fight of the Sarraounia against the Mission Voulet-Chanoine at the end of the 19th century. With The Battle of the Black Queen , a film adaptation was made in 1986 under the direction of Med Hondo , in which Mamani was also involved as a screenwriter. In Zinder, where he now lived, he was busy setting up a museum for a long time. Mamani died in a car accident on the way from Zinder to Niamey , where he was to receive the Prix ​​Boubou Hama national literature award .

Works

• as editor: Anthologie de la poésie de combat 1945-1960 . Oswald, Honfleur 1972. - With contributions by Louis Aragon , Aimé Césaire , Léon-Gontran Damas , Paul Niger and Guy Tirolien . The book is considered lost.
• Poemerides . Oswald, Honfleur 1972. - Poems.
• Le balai . RFI / ACCT, Paris 1973. - Play.
• Le fils du griot . DAEC, Paris 1974. - Play.
• Sarraounia. Le drame de la pure magicienne . L'Harmattan, Paris 1980. - Novel.
• Une nuit au Ténéré . In: Paris - Dakar, autres nouvelles . Souffles, Paris 1987, pp. 57-64. - novella.
• Oeuvres poétiques: poèmérides, éboniques, préface à l'Anthologie de poésie de combat, prèmiers poèmes . L'Harmattan, Paris 1993. - Published posthumously .

Awards

• Prix ​​Boubou Hama (1993)

literature

• Debra Boyd-Buggs: Mamani Abdoulaye: Pan-Africanist Poet . In: E. Anthony Hurley, Renée Brenda Larrier, Joseph McLaren (Eds.): Migrating Words and Worlds. Pan-Africanism Updated . Africa World Press, Trenton 1999, pp. 195-210.
• Mahamane Mallam Issa: Djibo Bakary et Abdoulaye Mamani: intellectuels et hommes politiques . In: Kimba Idrissa (ed.): Niger. Les intellectuels, l'État et la société . CODESRIA, Dakar 2016, ISBN 978-2-86978-708-7 , pp. 155-186 .
• Jean-Dominique Pénel: Abdoulaye Mamani. Another strange destiny . In: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde . No. 42/2, 2005, pp. 141-148.
• Jean-Dominique Pénel, Amadou Maïlélé: Littérature nigérienne. I. Rencontres: Kélétigui Mariko, Mamani Abdoulaye, Idé Oumarou, Yazi Dogo, Hawad . Éditions du Ténéré, Niamey 1990. New edition: Harmattan, Paris 2010. (The volume contains an interview with Abdoulaye Mamani.)
• Aïssata Sidikou: Mamani, Abdoulaye . In: Emmanuel K. Akyeampong , Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Eds.): Dictionary of African Biography . Volume 4: Maal - Odhia. Oxford University Press, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5 , pp. 67-69 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Debra Boyd-Buggs: Mamani Abdoulaye: Pan-Africanist Poet . In: E. Anthony Hurley, Renée Brenda Larrier, Joseph McLaren (Eds.): Migrating Words and Worlds. Pan-Africanism Updated . Africa World Press, Trenton 1999, p. 196.
2. ^ Jean-Paul Labourdette, Dominique Auzias: Niger 2009 . Nouvelle édition de l'Université, Paris 2009, ISBN 2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 215 .
3. ^ ^{A b} Jean-Dominique Pénel: Abdoulaye Mamani. Another strange destiny . In: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde . No. 42/2, 2005, pp. 142-143.
4. ^ Jon Abbink, Mirjam de Bruijn, Klaas van Walraven (eds.): Rethinking Resistance. Revolt and Violence in African History . Brill, Leiden / Boston 2003, ISBN 90-04-12624-4 , p. 229.
5. ↑ Debra Boyd-Buggs: Mamani Abdoulaye: Pan-Africanist Poet . In: E. Anthony Hurley, Renée Brenda Larrier, Joseph McLaren (Eds.): Migrating Words and Worlds. Pan-Africanism Updated . Africa World Press, Trenton 1999, p. 195.
6. ↑ Debra Boyd-Buggs: Mamani Abdoulaye: Pan-Africanist Poet . In: E. Anthony Hurley, Renée Brenda Larrier, Joseph McLaren (Eds.): Migrating Words and Worlds. Pan-Africanism Updated . Africa World Press, Trenton 1999, pp. 200-201.
7. ↑ Jean-Dominique Penel: Abdoulaye Mamani. Another strange destiny . In: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde . No. 42/2, 2005, p. 144.
8. ↑ Debra Boyd-Buggs: Mamani Abdoulaye: Pan-Africanist Poet . In: E. Anthony Hurley, Renée Brenda Larrier, Joseph McLaren (Eds.): Migrating Words and Worlds. Pan-Africanism Updated . Africa World Press, Trenton 1999, p. 204.