Journal Article

Léopold S. Senghor, Birago Diop et Chinua Achebe: Maîtres de la parole

Mabana, Kahiudi Claver

2006

Overview

The aim of this essay is to show the importance of the impact of African orature in the creative writing of African authors despite the ostensible differences in their colonial linguistic backgrounds. Diop does not suggest here that the African could not manufacture tools to help him dig a grave to inter the body of the undead dead, nor that every medical effort is not made to keep the body alive until it is too late.18 Le point de vue du célèbre Nigérian exprime une reconnaissance de la mission historique qu'assume l'écrivain africain en tant que porte-parole de sa culture, interprète de sa tradition et pilier majeur de sa civilisation. The measured tone of voice implants in the reader's mind the sense of order, perspective, and harmony whose later destruction is most poignant.19 En optant pour la voix du sage africain, Achebe tente de mettre un pont entre l'acquis de sa tradition et l'enseignement de l'école coloniale, il ne se confond pas aux ethnographes ni aux chercheurs voyageurs en quête de curiosités exotiques: il expose la vie de son peuple, les troubles métaphysiques de son héros dans toute leur complexité. 37 De l'avis de Killam, \"it is the religious principles embodied in Christianity which Okonkwo sees as the force that changes the nature of village life.

• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc
• Subject: Achebe, Chinua / Nigerian literature