Lamine Diakhate

Lamine Diakhaté ( born September 16, 1928 in Saint -Louis, † January 25, 1987 in Paris) was a Senegalese politician and diplomat and writer, poet and literary critic of the Negritude school.

Life

Lamine Diakhaté, who came from a highly respected and nationally known family of Senegal, was born on 16 September 1928 in Saint- Louis. After his death on January 25, 1987 in Paris, he was buried in the Muslim cemetery of Yoff on February 2, 1987 in Dakar.

The poet - president of Senegal, Leopold Sedar Senghor was aware of the young Lamine very early. This had visited schools in Louga and Saint Louis before received him in Katigoubou universities in Sudan and Dakar and Paris as a student. In the course of his studies, he holds degrees in oriental languages ​​, phonetics, literature and general linguistics. He then underwent training as a journalist and editor.

Positions and Offices

Later, he held important positions in France and Senegal. He was at times

  • Head of the Division d'Information de la Société de radio diffusion de la France d' Outre -Mer ( SORAFOM ) in Paris,
  • Director of Radio Diffusion of Senegal ( SORAFOM and Government of Senegal ) and
  • Director of the Information Department of Radio de la Fédération du Mali.

The duties assigned to him brought it about that Lamine Diakhaté numerous articles in journals such as Afrique en Marche ( Paris), Condition Humaine (Dakar ), Dakar Matin and Le Soleil (Dakar ) wrote. As a close associate of President Senghor, he held the office of

  • Chef du Cabinet de la Présidence du Sénégal. Later he was
  • Minister for Information, Telecommunications and Tourism and
  • Ambassador of Senegal to Nigeria and Morocco, as well as
  • Conseiller ou Délégué Permanent Adjoint du Sénégal at UNESCO in Paris.

At the same time Lamine Diakhaté was also a black African author and poet ' d'expression francaise ' and a major representative of the above- mentioned negritude school. Under this literary movement he understood the effort to impart the traditions and values ​​of the black African culture a voice. It was associated with the intention to participate in collaboration with other civil societies, to develop a universal humanism. As a literary critic Lamine Diakhaté has made an effort to find original of Aimé Césaire, Léon Damas, and Leopold Sedar - Senghor Gontran formulated or expressed ideas validity. So he asked his readers the works of authors of the Negritude school before and analyzed and criticized the works of others who are not known to her. In addition to Aimé Césaire and Alioune Diop Lamine Diakhaté was also one of a total of 5 members of the Management Committee of the Editions Présences Africa Ines in Paris. In this publishing house later some of his poetic works were published. In the journal Présence Africaine several of his scientific articles published. For several years he was also Secretary for Cultural Affairs ( Secrétaire Culturel ) of the Société Africaine de Culture (SAC ).

Conferences and festivals

As part of all, exercised by him functions, Lamine Diakhaté took part in numerous festivals and conferences in Africa, Europe and Asia. So he visited, for example, the

  • Biennales Internationales de Poésie, including the V and XII. Biennale of Knokke- le- Zoute in Belgium ( September 1961, 1975), the
  • Première and Troisième Biennale de la Langue Francaise in Namur and Liege, Belgium.
  • In the years 1965 and 1969, the Colloques of Ecrivains African- Scandinaves in Stockholm, Sweden, the
  • Congrès of Ecrivains African- Asiatiques in Beirut, Lebanon, in March 1967. Moreover, he participated in the
  • Festival de Poétique Struga, Former Yugoslavia, in August 1976, the
  • Fourth World Congress of Poets in Seoul, Korea, from 2 to 7 July 1976 and on
  • 15è Congrès de l' Union Internationale part of Journalists et de Langue Francaise de la Presse in Paris from 29 September to 6 October 1976.

Several times he was also one of the co-organizers, for example, Premier Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres from 1 -24. April 1966 in Dakar, the Festival Culturel d' Alger Panafricain in 1969, the Journées Culturelles Africa Ines de Turin, Italy, in April 1967, the Colloque sur la negritude in Dakar, Senegal, in April of 1971, and the Introduction à la Grammar de LS Senghor in Casablanca, Morocco, in April 1974.

Prizes and awards

  • The merits of Lamine Diakhaté than auteur et poète noire africain d'expression francaise were repeatedly formally recognized. The ' Societé des Gens de Lettres de France elected him, for example, in November 1976 to their member.

In addition, he was awarded two literary prizes, the:

  • Edgar Poe Prix for 1971, awarded by the "Maison de la Poésie ' in Paris, as well as the
  • Grand Prix littéraire de l' Afrique noire in 1979 for his novel Chalys d' Harlem.

Works

  • La joie d'un Continent. Editions P.A.B., Alès 1954.
  • Sarzan. ' Liaisons ', numéro spécial, ' L' Afrique nouvelle '. Dakar 1955.
  • Pour la jeune fille de soie noire. In: Présence Africaine. 2ème série no 3, 1955, p 48
  • Primordial du jour sixième. Editions Présence Africaine, Paris 1963.
  • Temps de mémoire. Editions Présence Africaine, Paris 1967.
  • Prisonnier du Regard. ' Présence Africaine ', nouvelle série bilingue no 65, 1968, pp. 144-155;
  • Nouvelles Editions Ines Africa, Dakar 1975.
  • Minister (Senegal)
  • Ambassador to Morocco
  • Journalist
  • Author
  • Literature ( Senegal)
  • Of the Order of the Rising Sun
  • Senegalese
  • Born in 1928
  • Died in 1987
  • Man
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