Seydou Badian Kouyaté

Seydou Badian Kouyaté, today officially Seydou Badian Noumboïna (* 1928 in Bamako ) is a writer and politician from the West African nation of Mali.

Kouyaté studied at the French University of Montpellier medicine and wrote his doctoral thesis on African cures for yellow fever. In 1956 he returned to Mali, and was appointed to a district medical officer. Just one year later, and three years before the independence of his native country, he published his first novel under the title Sous l' orage.

Since he was close to the President Modibo Keïta, he wrote the text for the Malian national anthem Pour l' Afrique et pour toi, Mali. After the country's independence, he became agricultural and Planning Minister. Following the Government of September 17, 1962 he held the post of Minister for Development. He was of the opinion that a single party is the only way to state building in post-colonial Africa. In 1965 he published Les dirigeants face à leurs peuples.

After the coup by Moussa Traoré in 1968, he was first deported to Kidal, later he escaped to Dakar in neighboring Senegal. There he published the two novels, Le Sang des masques (1976) and Noces sacrées (1977).

In 1997 he was a candidate in the presidential elections, but withdrew as numerous other opposition candidate against incumbent Alpha Oumar Konaré, in protest against the poor organization of the elections his candidacy back. Although he was a member of the Sudanese Union U.S. RDA of the first hour, he was expelled from the party in 1998 because he was a part of their leadership, which entered the non-recognition of institutions by contesting the elections defied.

Seydou Badian Kouyaté In October 2007, published his novel called La Saison the pièges. Seydou Badian Kouyaté in 2009 changed his name and is now called officially Seydou Badian Noumboïna, after a village in the district of Macina.

Works

  • Sous l' orage ( Kany ), les Presses universal (1957 )
  • La mort de Chaka, Présence africaine (1962 )
  • Les Dirigeants africains face à leurs peuples, Grand Prix littéraire de l' Afrique noire (1965 )
  • Le Sang des masques (1976 )
  • Sacrées Noces (1977 )
  • La Saison the pièges, Nouvelles Éditions ivoiriennes Présence africaine and (2007)
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