Category talk:Senegalese writers

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’’’Aminata Sow Fall’’’
Wikipedia-Article
Aminata Sow Fall, born in 1941 in Saint-Louis / Senegal, is a Senegalese Author.
Content
1 Biography
2 Bibliography
3 Sources
Biography
After several years at the Lycée Faidherbe in Saint-Louis Aminata Sow Fall completes her secondary education at the Lycée Van Vo in Dakar. Follows a period of studies of Roman Philology and Literature in France, that earn her a Licence-degree.
Having married in 1963 she returns to Senegal to work as a teacher and is then invited to cooperate in a National Commission charged with reforming the Instruction of the French Language.
From 1979 to 1988 she works as a director for Language and Literary Studies and Intellectual Property in the Ministry of Culture and Director of the Centre for Studies and Culture.
Further merits are to be seen in the foundation of the publishing company Khoudia, the African Centre for Cultural Exchange, the African Bureau for the Defence of the Liberties of Authors in Dakar and the International Centre for Studies, Research and Reactivation of Literature, Arts and Culture in Saint-Louis.
Various Universities have conferred her with an honorary doctorate for her commitment to the promotion of culture and cultural exchange.
As regards content her publications mainly deal with the collision and contrast of traditional and occidental culture and values and the social conflicts that arise as a consequence and manage to keep the reader under their spell through the irony evolving from the viewpoint of the narrator and language.
Bibliography
- Le Revenant, Novel, 1976
- La Grève des Bàttu, Novel, 1979 (The Strike of the Deprived)
/ Adapted into a film by Oumar Cissoko
Modern Politics intended to preserve the appearances of a functioning society contrasted to traditional and religious rites around compassion and donations to socially deprived
- L’Appel des Arènes, Novel, 1982 (The Call of the Arenas)
Distancing from the family and traditional values after studies abroad a couple reluctantly finds back to its roots through their child
- Ex-Père de la Nation, Novel, 1987 (The Ex-Father of the Nation)
The defeat of an idealistic politician considering his role as father of the nation confronted with the social and economical realities. As a consequence his regime turns into a dictatorship and he is removed from power by a subversive movement
- Le Jujubier du Patriarche, Novel, 1993
- Douceurs du Bercail, Novel, 1998 (The Sweetness of Homeland)
- Un grain de vie et d’espérance, 2002 (A grain of life and hope – Reflections on gastronomic culture in Senegal, followed by a collection of recipes assembled by Margo Harley)
Sources
http://arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/SowFallAminata.html
Categories: Senegalese Author / 1941 Births
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::Looks good. If there's no copywright problems feel free to add some of this to the article on her.--T. Anthony 02:26, 18 September 2005 (UTC)