Nazi bonuses

Memorial to Nazi Bonuses in Dedugu, Burkina Faso (March 2015)

Nazi Boni (born December 31, 1909 in Bouan, Upper Senegal and Niger , today Burkina Faso ; † May 16, 1969 in Kokologho , Upper Volta , today Burkina Faso) was a writer and politician from the West African state of Upper Volta, renamed Burkina Faso in 1984 has been.

Boni attended primary school in Ouagadougou and the École normal William Ponty near Dakar . He first started working as a teacher for the French colonial administration, but his critical stance on colonialism got him into trouble with the colonial administration. In his work Crépuscule des temps anciens he writes about the change in traditional societies due to forced modernization. He urged his people, the Bwaba , not to forget their roots, and above all the oral tradition of their myths and history.

In 1948 he was elected to the French parliament in Paris for Upper Volta and in 1957 chairman of the newly created parliament of Upper Volta. He later lost this post after disputes with Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly , who was then Prime Minister. He founded several parties and was committed to the creation of another territory within French West Africa , which should include the west of the Upper Voltaic territory.

As a result, Boni had problems with President Maurice Yaméogo , went into exile in Dakar and was killed in a traffic accident in Upper Volta in 1969.

Works

• Chronique du Bwamu (1962)
• Crépuscule des temps anciens (1964)
• Fondements traditionnels et modern des pouvoirs en Afrique (1969)
• Histoire synthétique de l'Afrique résistante (1971)

Web links

• Nazi bonuses on the website of the French National Assembly (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lawrence Rupley, Lamissa Bangali, Boureima Diamitani: Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso . 3. Edition. Scarecrow, Lanham / Toronto / Plymouth 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-6770-3 , pp. 30 .