Germain Coffi Gadeau

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Germain Coffi Gadeau (* around 1913 , Gbomizambo , Ivory Coast ; † August 18, 2000 ) was an Ivorian playwright.

Life

As a teenager, Coffi Gadeau went to Dakar , where he studied administration at the École normal William Ponty . His literary career began there. He founded the Théâtre Indigène de la Côte d'Ivoire together with a few fellow students (including François-Joseph Amon d'Aby ) , in which on the one hand moralizing pieces and on the other hand satirical pieces about obsolete traditions in West Africa were created. Few of these pieces have been published.

After finishing school he went back to his homeland, where he first worked as an accountant in the treasury, later as president of the finance commission of the Territorial Assembly, as a regional councilor in Bouaké and as a member of parliament. After the Ivory Coast gained independence, he was promoted to Minister of the Interior. In 1963, however, he was accused of being involved in a plot against President Félix Houphouët-Boigny . He was imprisoned until 1971, but was then rehabilitated and served as a minister without jurisdiction in the government.

Works (selection)

  • Kondé Yao (1939)
  • Nos femmes (1940), a partly autobiographical comedy about the decline in morality and the rise of prostitution in African cities
  • Mon Mari (1942)
  • Les recrutés de monsieur Maurice (1942), in which he denounced slave and forced labor, being the first African author to deal with the subject in a dramatic way. This work has been banned by the censors.
  • Les anciens combattants (1943), in which he heroizes African mercenaries in the service of the French armed forces
  • Ya-ou Nda (1954)
  • Adjo-blah (1963)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert S. Gérard: European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa. John Benjamin Publishing Company 1986, pp. 137ff.
  2. ↑ Samba Diarra: Les Faux Complots d'Houphouët-Boigny . Editions Khartala 1997.
  3. ↑ Koffi Kwahulé: Gadeau Germain Coffi . Retrieved October 6, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Coffi Gadeau, Germain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION African writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Gbomizambo , Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 2000