Djéliba Badjé

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Djéliba Badjé (* 1941 in Tonko Bangou , Liboré ; † April 24, 2018 ; also Diéliba Badji , Djéliba Badio , actually Djibo Badjé ) was a Nigerian narrator of the Djesseré profession .

Life

Djéliba Badjé belonged to the Songhai ethnic group , but, as is usual with Djesseré, indicated a Soninke origin. His stage name Djéliba describes a great narrator in the Soninke language . He was a son of Djesseré Badjé Bannya and his first wife Maïmouna Boureyma, who came from a family of tanners.

Djéliba Badjé began his training as a storyteller at the age of seven from his father, who taught him the pedigrees of the traditional rulers (chefferies traditionalnelles) with almost 300 lineages, tales of Zarma warriors and the lute instrument molo , the typical accompaniment instrument of the Djesseré. He received no conventional schooling. He stayed with his father until his death in 1970, after which he continued his education in Mali , Guinea , Mauritania and Senegal .

A Djesseré is usually assigned to the court of a traditional ruler. Djéliba Badjé adapted this tradition and followed Seyni Kountché , Niger's head of state from 1974 to 1987. Well-known titles of his epics told in Zarma are Damonzon , Garba Mama , Hama Bodeïzé Pathé , Mamoudou Diawondo and Zabarkane . The knowledge of history was more important to him than the formation of a certain artistic style, which could be found, for example, in the Djesseré Djado Sékou . The latter cultivated a poetic, playful and sometimes drastic style that secured a young audience for him, while Djéliba Badjé addressed older sections of the population with sober simplicity. He performed without an accompanist and also played the instrument Molo himself along with his stories. He passed his craft on to numerous young Djesseré.

The state broadcaster ORTN and the Research Institute for Human Sciences (IRSH) in Niamey initially recorded ten of his stories, until Djéliba Badjé declined to work together on copyright grounds . In 1994 he met the Swiss ethnolinguist Sandra Bornand and, in order to preserve his work for posterity, allowed her to record more than 500 hours of material. In the end he was considered to be the last of the great Djesseré masters still alive, to whom - besides the already mentioned Badjé Bannya and Djado Sékou - also Koulba Baba , Nouhou Malio and Tinguizi belonged. Not least because of this, the interest of scientific research in Africa, Europe and America in his person increased and he was regularly invited to international conferences on orality .

Djéliba Badjé had four wives and almost thirty children. He died in 2018 at the age of 77.

literature

  • Sandra Bornand: Le discours du griot généalogiste chez les Zarma du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-84586-625-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Sandra Bornand: Le discours du griot généalogiste chez les Zarma du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-84586-625-9 , pp. 225 .
  2. ^ A b Sandra Bornand: Le discours du griot généalogiste chez les Zarma du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-84586-625-9 , pp. 222 .
  3. ^ A b Sandra Bornand: Le discours du griot généalogiste chez les Zarma du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-84586-625-9 , pp. 223-224 .
  4. ↑ a b c Amélie Tulet: Djibo Badjé, dernier grand griot historien zarma du Niger. RFI, March 20, 2013, accessed April 9, 2020 (French).
  5. ↑ Ousmane Mahamane Tandina: épopée L' . In: Marie-Clotilde Jacquey (ed.): Littérature nigérienne (=  Notre librairie . No. 107 ). CLEF, Paris 1991, p. 60 .
  6. ↑ a b Hamadou Seini: Zarma-Songhoï Verbal Artistry and Expression: From the Epic to the Francophone Novel, with a Focus on Intertextual Dialogue Across the Genres . Dissertation. University of Colorado, Boulder 2013, pp. 31 and 33 ( scholar.colorado.edu [PDF; accessed April 9, 2020]).
  7. ↑ a b c Saley Boubé Bali: Djéliba Badjé: un monument vivant de l'oralité s'éteint. In: Niger Inter. April 26, 2018, accessed April 9, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Djéliba Badjé
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Badjé, Djibo (real name); Diéliba Badji; Djeliba Badio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien narrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Tonko Bangou , Liboré
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2018