Abdoulaye Mamani

Abdoulaye Mamani (* 1932 in Goudoumaria, † June 3, 1993 in Niger ) was a writer and politician from Niger.

Life

Abdoulaye Mamani was the son of a small farmer in the eastern part of the French colony of Niger. He began to become politically active at an early age and was a founding member of the left-wing party of Djibo Bakary Sawaba. In 1956 he became a deputy in the Grand Conseil of French West Africa in Accra. In 1958 he went to in the constituency Zinder against Hamani Diori and won. The Conservative Hamani Diori, the strongest rival Djibo Bakarys, was an influential personality and the election was declared invalid. Still lost in 1958, the ruling party Sawaba a referendum on the immediate independence of Niger and when the country finally became independent from France in 1960, was Hamani Diori to its first president.

For Djibo Bakary and his followers it was too dangerous to remain in the country and also Abdoulaye Mamani spent the years 1960-1974 in exile. Until the fall of Kwame Nkrumah in 1966 he stayed on Ghana, traveled to Guinea and then to Mali, where he remained until the fall of Modibo Keïta in 1968. He subsequently received by President Houari Boumedienne in Algeria asylum, where he became involved in the Algerian Front de Libération Nationale. He made many trips to other countries, among other things, he came at the invitation of the Black Panther Party in Harlem. Mamani was still active for the Sawaba party. He led the Sawaba office in Algiers and was responsible for the control of the Sawaba recruits for the buying of weapons and the arms shipments to Sawaba base in Ghana. As a political journalist, he wrote, among other things syndicalist newspapers like Talaka. During his time in Algeria and his first literary publications appeared. 1972 Poèmérides came out, a collection of 30 autobiographical poems that were close to the negritude.

1974 sat Seyni Kountché in a coup Hamani Diori as President Abdoulaye Mamani from and returned in the same year returned to Niger. However, it Kountché arresting political political reasons in 1976. After his release from prison Mamani published in 1980 his most famous literary work, Sarraounia. The historical novel depicts the struggle of Sarraounia against the mission Voulet - Chanoine end of the 19th century. With The Battle Of The Black Queen In 1986, a film adaptation directed by Med Hondo, was involved in the Mamani as a scriptwriter. In Zinder, where he lived now, he has long been engaged in the creation of a museum. Mamani died in a car accident on the way from Zinder to Niamey, where he was to answer the state cultural award Prix Boubou Hama.

Works

  • As editor: anthology de la poésie de combat from 1945 to 1960. Oswald, Honfleur, 1972 -. With contributions by Louis Aragon, Aimé Césaire, Léon Damas - Gontran, Paul Niger and Guy Tirolien. The book is considered lost.
  • Poèmérides. Oswald, Honfleur, 1972 -. Poems.
  • Le balai. RFI / ACCT, Paris 1973 -. Theater piece.
  • Le fils du griot. DAEC, Paris 1974 -. Theater piece.
  • Sarraounia. Le drame de la reine magicienne. L' Harmattan, Paris, 1980 -. Novel.
  • Une nuit au Ténéré. In: Paris - Dakar, autres nouvelles. Souffles, Paris, 1987, pp. 57-64. - Novella.
  • Oeuvres poétiques: poèmérides, éboniques, préface à l' Anthologie de poésie de combat, Premiers poèmes. L' Harmattan, Paris, 1993 -. Published posthumously.

Awards

  • Boubou Hama Prix (1993 )
Houari Boumediene Syndicalism Voulet–Chanoine Mission
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