Nazi Boni

Nazi Boni ( born December 31, 1909 in Bouan, Upper Senegal and Niger, now Burkina Faso, † May 16 1969 in Kokologho, Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso ) was a writer and politician from the West African nation of Upper Volta, the renamed Burkina Faso in 1984 been.

Bonuses initially began to work as a teacher during the French colonial rule, his critical attitude to colonialism brought him trouble with the colonial administration. In his work Crépuscule des temps anciens he writes about the transformation of traditional societies by the forced modernization. He admonished his people, the Bwaba, their roots, and above all the oral tradition of their myths and history, not to forget.

In 1948 he was elected for Upper Volta to the French Parliament in Paris and in 1957 chairman of the newly created Parliament of Upper Volta. A post he later but lost again after a fight with Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly, the then Prime Minister. He founded several parties and was involved in the creation of additional territory within French West Africa that would include the West of obervoltaischen territory.

Bonuses had in the subsequent problems with the president Maurice Yaméogo, went into exile in Dakar and in 1969 in a road accident in Upper Volta killed.

Works

• Chronique du Bwamu (1962 )
• Crépuscule des temps anciens (1964 )
• Fondements traditionnels et modernes of pouvoirs en Afrique (1969 )
• Histoire de l' Afrique synthétique résistante (1971 )