Amadou Hampâté BAH, Malian author born in 1901 in Bandiagara in Mali and died in 1991 used to say that “in Africa when an old man dies, it’s a library that burns”. Author of numerous books such as “Peul initiation tales”, his work is synonymous with oral tradition.
What remains of Amadou Hampâté Bah’s legacy today? What place for storytellers in Africa in the age of social networks and screens? Is the tradition of orality in disuse? How can it be renewed? Who are contemporary storytellers?
Yacouba KonateProfessor of Philosophy at the Félix Houphouët-Boigny University in Abidjan and Honorary President of the International Association of Art Critics (Aica)
Roukiatou Hampâté Bahdaughter of Amadou Hampâté Bâ, a Malian writer, who died in 1991. President of the foundation of the same name in the Cocody district of Abidjan.
Adama Adepoju said “taxi storyteller”, Ivorian storyteller and president of the national theater federation of Côte d’Ivoire
Program recorded on the occasion of the 2022 edition of the MASA in Abidjan.