webPulaaku
Translated by Daniel Whitman
With “Kings, Sages, Rogues: The Historical Writings of Amadou Hampâté Bâ”
Washington, D.C. Three Continents Press. 1988.
Bibliography
Primary sources: books
- Bâ, Amadou Hampâté
- Aspects de la civilisation africaine. Paris: Présence Africaine, 1972. Italian edition: Bologna: E.M.I., 1975.
- L'Eclat de la grande étoile suivi du bain rituel. Paris: Armand Colin, 1974.
- L'Etrange destin de Wangrin. Paris: Editions 10/18, 1973, rpt. 1975.
- Jaawambe; traditions historiques des Peul Jaawambe. Niamey: Centre Régional de Documentation pour la Tradition Orale, 1970.
- Koukamonzon. Niamey: C.N.R.S.H., 1971.
- Les Marches de Dagoudane Pikine. Dakar: Collège &Aménagement du Territoire, 1967.
- Petit Bodiel. Abidjan: Nouvelles Editions Africaines, 1976.
- Jésus vu par un Musulman. Abidjan, 1976.
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- and Lilyan Kesteloot, editors. Kaidara, récit initiatique peul. Paris: Julliard, 1969. Rpt. Abidjan, 1978. An Italian edition, edited by Lilyan Kesteloot and translated by Tippett Andalo; was published in 1975 (Milan: Rusconi Libri).
- and G. Dieterlen. Koumen, texte initiatique des pasteurs peuls. Paris: Mouton, 1961.
Primary sources: articles by Amadou Hampâté Bâ
- “Jesus et Hasdu.” Dakar: IFAN Bulletin, vol. xxxi Series B No. 3, 1969.
- “Fulani poetry” in Le Monde noir. Paris: Présence Africaine, special issue 8-9.
- “La Notion de personne en Afrique noire.” Paris: Colloques Intemationaux du C.N.R.S., no. 544.
- “Les Religions africaines comme source de valeurs de civilisation.” (Cotonou colloquium. August, 1970). Paris: Présence Africaine, 1972.
- A prose edition of the Kaidara was published in Abidjan in 1978 (Editions Africaines). It includes the text of a 1943 edition which won the Prix Litteraire of French West Africa and has comments by Professor Monod.
Secondary sources: literary and philosophical
- Comhaire-Sylvain, S. and J. Le Nouveau dossier Afrique. Verviers (Belgium): Marabout (Gerard). 1971.
- Nantet, Jacques. Panorama de la littérature noire d'expression française. Paris: Fayard, 1972.
- Sow, Alfâ Ibrâhîm. Inventaire du Fond Amadou-Hampâté Bâ. Paris: C. Klincksieck, 1970.
Secondary sources: historical background, regional and ethnographic
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- Benoit, Michel. Introduction à la géographie des aires pastorales soudaniennes de Haute Volta. Paris: Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d'Outre-Mer (ORSTOM), 1974.
- Calame-Griaule, Denise. Ethnologie et langage: La parole chez les Dogon. Paris: Gallimard, 1965.
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- Dupire, M. Peuls nomades. Paris: Institut d'Ethnologie, Musée de I'Homme.
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- Guébhard, Paul. Les Peulh du Fouta-Dialon. Paris: Geuthner (Revue des Etudes Ethnographiques et Sociologiques), 1904.
- Johnston, H.A.S. The Fulani Empire of Sokoto. London: Oxford University Press, 1967.
- Liking, Werewere. Une vision de Kaydara d'Amadou Hampâté Bâ. Abidjan: Nouvelles Editions Africaines, 1984.
- Naipaul, V.S. “The Crocodiles of Yamoussoukro.” In New Yorker Magazine, May 14, 1984.
- O'Brien, Donal B. Cruise. Saints and Politicians. London: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
- Oliver, Roland and J.D. Fage. A Short History of Africa. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1962 (fifth rpt. 1969).
- Racaboy, Commandant. “Le Hamallisme.” In Archives of the Centre de Hautes Etudes Administratives sur l'Afrique et l'Asie Modernes. (no. 1153, unpublished), 1947.
- Riesman, Paul. Societé et liberté chez les Peul Djelgobe de Haute-Volta. Paris: Mouton, 1974.
- Seydou, Christiane. “Trois poèmes mystiques peuls du Fouta-Djalon.” Revue des Etudes Islamiques, XL/D. 1972.
- Stenning, D. Savannah Nomads. London: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Trimingham, J. Spencer. A History of Islam in West Africa. London: Oxford University Press, 1962 (rpt. 1975).
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In addition, these works have been of some use in the preparation of this volume:
- Cartey, Wilfred. Whispers from a Continent: the Literature of Contemporary Black Africa. New York: Random House, 1969.
- Diabate, Massa Makan. Si le feu s'éteignait. Bamako, Mali: Editions Populaires du Mali, 1967.
- Jahn, Janheinz. Muntu. An Outline of the New African Culture. New York: Grove, 1961.
- Jahn, Janheinz. Muntu. Neo-African Literature, A History of Black Writing. New York, Grove, 1968, rpt. 1969.
- Mbiti, John S. African Religions and Philosophy. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1969, rpt. 1970.
- Kesteloot, Lilyan. Anthologie négro-africaine. Verviers (Belgium): Marabout (Gerard). 1971.
- Niane, D. T. Sundiata, an epic of old Mali. tr. G.D. Pickett. London: Longman, 1965, rpt. 1973.
- Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale. Tr. first ed., Laurence Scott, intro. Savatova Pirkova-Jakobson; second ed., Louis A. Wagner, intro., Alan Dundes. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1975.
- Wauthier, Claude. L'Afrique des Africains: Inventaire de la Négritude. Paris: Seuil, 1964.