Fily Dabo Sissoko

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Fily Dabo Sissoko (born May 15, 1900 in Horokoto ( Bafoulabé district ), Mali , † June 30, 1964 in Kidal , Mali) was a writer and politician from the West African state of Mali. He was one of the fighters for Mali's independence in the 1940s and 1950s and is also considered the father of French-language Malian literature.

life and work

Sissoko was born in Malinké country in the southwest of today's Mali. His mother, Darama-Dialla Dabo, was held in high regard and was considered a family mother chosen by Allah . His father, Sirinam Sissoko, like many of his ancestors, was head of all Malinké in the Niamba . Sissoko went through the colonial school system of the time, the aim of which was to train staff for the local colonial administration. He attended elementary school in Bafoulabé and later studied in Kayes , at the École normal William Ponty in Saint-Louis and on Gorée and in Ouagadougou . At a very young age he wrote essays on the situation of children and totemism . In 1933 he took over his father's office as head of a canton. His commitment to France in World War II earned him a medal from the Resistance .

After 1945 he became a member of the National Assembly for Sudan and Niger , where he worked in the Commission for Labor and Social Security and from 1946 repeatedly in the Commission for Overseas Territories. In these functions he worked particularly for the abolition of inequalities between the citizens of continental France and its colonies. From 1946 he was chairman of the Parti Soudanais Progressiste , which had the goodwill of the French government rather than the Union Soudanaise . In 1948 he was briefly Undersecretary for Trade and Industry in the government of Robert Schuman . In his appearances before the National Assembly, he argued for a reformed French Union and cooperation between all peoples. At the same time, he also stood for the growing uncertainty of the supporters of the French Union in view of the beginning process of European unification.

When Mali became independent under Modibo Keïta and his US-RDA in 1962 , Sissoko went into opposition. He was arrested and sentenced to death for alleged conspiracy against the government. After the death penalty was commuted to life imprisonment, he was killed in dubious circumstances in 1964 in Mali's remote north, along with numerous other influential intellectuals.

As a member of the scientific council of the Institut français d'Afrique noire , Sissoko himself published numerous articles, novels and poems from prison. This includes four volumes of poetry, political essays, ethnographic representations and a collection of Malinké proverbs. The publication of the novel La passion de Djimé is often seen as a turning point in his oeuvre away from ethnographically oriented literature towards artistic creativity. For Sissoko's work it was always important that he explicitly participated in the cultural and religious traditions of his ancestors.

Works

  • 1936: La Politesse et la civilité des Noirs (article published in the Bulletin de la recherche du Soudan )
  • 1950: Les Noirs et la culture: Introduction auxproblemèmes de l'évolution des peuples noirs (article published in New York)
  • 1953: Crayons et portraits (poems, Mulhouse, Imprimerie Union)
  • 1953: Harmakhis, poèmes du terroir africain (Paris, Éditions de la Tour du Guet )
  • 1955: Sagesse noire, sentences et poèmes malinkés (Paris, Éditions de la Tour du Guet)
  • 1955: La passion de Djimé (Roman Paris, Éditions de la Tour du Guet)
  • 1957: Coup de sagaie, controverse sur l'Union française (article, Paris, Éditions La Tour du Guet)
  • 1959: Une page est tournée (essay, Dakar, Diop)
  • 1962: La savane rouge (Avignon, Presses universelles)
  • 1963: Poèmes de l'Afrique noire (collection of poems, Paris, Éditions Debresse )
  • 1970: Les Jeux de destin (poems, Paris, Éditions Jean Grassin )
  • 1970: Au-dessus des nuages ​​de Madagascar au Kenya (poems, Paris, Éditions Jean Grassin)

literature

  • Sébastien Denjean: Fily Dabo Sissoko . Mémoire de DEA, Center d'études d'Afrique noire, 1994.
  • Singare Salamatou Maïga: À la découverte de l'œuvre littéraire de Fily Dabo Sissoko: thématique et poétique . Doctoral thesis at the Université de Cergy Pontoise, 1999, 418 pp.
  • Mamadou Lamine Diawara: Fily-Dabo Sissoko ou la malédiction de Saara Minyamba . Nouvelles Du Sud, 2000.
  • Mamadou Koné, La Savane rouge de Fily Dabo Sissoko - Textes et contextes, Thèse de Doctorat, Université de Bayreuth, 2004, 265 p.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Dorothea E. Schulz: Culture and Customs of Mali . Santa Barbara 2012, ISBN 978-0-313-35912-5 , p. 50.
  2. ↑ a b c d e National Assembly of the French Republic: Fily-Dabo SISSOKO. Biography of the députés de la IVe république. Archived from the original ; Retrieved September 8, 2013 .
  3. ^ A b Dorothea E. Schulz: Culture and Customs of Mali . Santa Barbara 2012, ISBN 978-0-313-35912-5 , p. 51.

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personal data
SURNAME Sissoko, Fily Dabo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sissoko, Fily-Dabo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Malian politician and writer, member of the National Assembly (France)
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Horokoto , Mali
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1964
Place of death Kidal , Mali