Fily Dabo Sissoko
Dabo Sissoko fily ( born May 15, 1900 in Horokoto ( circle Bafoulabé ), Mali, † June 30, 1964 in Kidal, Mali ) was a writer and politician from the West African nation of Mali. He was one of the fighters for the independence of Mali in the 1940s and 1950s, and is the same as the father of French-speaking Malian literature.
Life and work
Sissoko was born in Malinke country in the southwest of present-day Mali. His mother, Darama - Dialla Dabo, had a high reputation and was regarded as chosen by Allah family mother. His father, Sirinam Sissoko, was like many of his ancestors chief of all the Malinke in the Niamba. Sissoko went through the former colonial school system, whose aim was to train personnel for the local colonial administration. He attended primary school in Bafoulabé and learned later in Kayes, Saint- Louis, Gorée and Ouagadougou. At a very young age, he wrote essays on the situation of children and totemism. In 1933 he took over his father's position as head of a canton. His commitment to France in World War II earned him a Medal of the Resistance.
After 1945 he was MP for Sudan and Niger in the National Assembly, where he repeatedly worked in the Commission of Labour and Social Security and from 1946 in the Commission for overseas territories. In these roles, he sat down one particularly for the elimination of inequalities between citizens metropolitan France and its colonies. From 1946 he was chairman of the Parti Soudanais progressiste that the goodwill of the French Government had rather than the Union Soudanaise. In 1948 he was briefly Undersecretary of State for Trade and Industry in the government of Robert Schuman. In his appearances before the National Assembly, he argued for a reformed French union and cooperation of all peoples. At the same time he was also for the growing uncertainty of the advocates of the French Union in view of the beginning process of European unification.
As in 1962, Modibo Keïta and Mali under its U.S. RDA became independent, Sissoko went into opposition. He was arrested and sentenced to death for alleged conspiracy against the government. After the death penalty was commuted to life imprisonment, he came in 1964 in Mali's remote north under dubious circumstances their lives, the same as many other influential intellectuals.
As a member of the Scientific Council of the Institut français d' Afrique noire Sissoko published himself out of jail numerous articles, novels and poems. These include four books of poetry, political essays, ethnographic representations and a collection of proverbs of the Malinke. The publication of the novel La passion de DJIME is often seen as a turning point in his work away from ethnographic literature oriented toward artistic creativity. Important for the creation of Sissoko was always his explicit participation in the cultural and religious traditions of his ancestors.