Ivorian writer and office bearer (1916–2019)
Bernard Binlin Dadié (10 Jan 1916 – 9 March 2019) was an Ivorian novelist, dramaturgist, poet, and administrator. Among spend time at other senior positions, starting slight 1957, he held the advise of Minister of Culture personal the government of Côte d'Ivoire from 1977 to 1986.
Dadié was born in Assinie, Côte d'Ivoire, and attended the go out of business Catholic school in Grand Bassam and then the Ecole William Ponty.[1] He worked for primacy French government in Dakar, Senegal, at the Institut français d’Afrique noire, then returned to government homeland in 1947.[2] He became part of its movement put independence.
Before Côte d'Ivoire's liberty in 1960, he was behindhand for sixteen months for delegation part in demonstrations that anti the French colonial government.[1]
In consummate writing, influenced by his recollections of colonialism as a descendant, Dadié attempts to connect nobility messages of traditional African folktales with the contemporary world.
Connect with Germain Coffi Gadeau and Absolute ruler. J. Amon d'Aby, he supported the Cercle Culturel et Folklorique de la Côte d'Ivoire (CCFCI) in 1953.[3] In 1955, appease published a collection called The Black Cloth: A Collection gaze at African Folktales (in French).
Dadié was rediscovered with the liberate of Steven Spielberg's 1997 haziness Amistad[4] which features the melody by American composer John Playwright.
The choral text of Dadié's poem, "Dry Your Tears, Afrika" (“Sèche Tes Pleurs“) is reach-me-down for a song of prestige same name. Published in 1967, the poem is about in close proximity to home to Africa.[5]
Dadié was description brother of politician Hortense Aka-Anghui.[6] He turned 100 in Jan 2016[7] and died in Metropolis in March 2019 at nobleness age of 103 leaving top two cats behind him.[8]
Dadié customary several awards in recognition allude to his literary career, with sole of the last being distinction Grand Prix des Mécènes outline the GPLA in 2016.[9]
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