Born in 1900 in French West Africa, Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ was one of the towering figures in the literature of twentieth-century Francophone Africa. In Amkoullel, the Fula Boy, Bâ tells in striking detail the story of his youth, which was set against the aftermath of war between the Fula and Toucouleur peoples and the installation of French colonialism. A master storyteller, Bâ recounts pivotal moments of his life, and the lives of his powerful and large family, from his first encounter with the white commandant through the torturous imprisonment of his stepfather and to his forced attendance at French school. He also charts a larger story of life prior to and at the height of French colonialism: interethnic conflicts, the clash between colonial schools and Islamic education, and the central role indigenous African intermediaries and interpreters played in the functioning of the colonial administration. Engrossing and novelistic, Amkoullel, the Fula Boy is an unparalleled rendering of an individual and society under transition as they face the upheavals of colonialism.
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- Contents
- Foreword to the Translation / Ralph A. Austen
- Introduction: Between Memory and Memorial / Jeanne Garane
- Amkoullel, the Fula Boy
- Preface to the Original Edition / Théodore Monod
- Author’s Foreword / Amadou Hampâté Bâ
- Chapter 1: Roots
- My Dual Heritage
- Pâté Poullo, My Maternal Grandfather
- The Story of My Father Hampâté, the Lamb in the Lion’s Den
- Chapter 2: Kadidja, My Mother
- Kadidja’s Dream
- Kadidja and Hampâté: A Rocky Marriage
- Kadidja and Tidjani
- The Toïni Revolt
- Kadidja’s Quest
- The Trial
- Chapter 3: Exile
- Tidjani’s Long March
- Kadidja’s Village
- On the Road to Bougouni with My Mother
- Kadidja Battles the Boss of the Laptot Boatmen
- Birth of My Little Brother
- A Father in Chains
- An Ember That Does Not Burn
- Death of My Early Childhood
- Danfo Siné the Dan Player
- Death of My Old Master
- In the Shade of Great Trees
- Freedom at Last!
- Chapter 4: Return to Bandiagara
- A Day in the Life of a Child
- The White Man’s Excrement and the Town Made of Trash
- I Establish My First Association
- A Handful of Rice
- At School with the Masters of the Word
- Sinali’s Garden
- Boy and Girl Valentines
- Kadidja and Tidjani in Crisis
- Circumcision of My Brother Hammadoun
- The Great Battle
- Chapter 5: At the White Man’s School
- Requisitioned by Force
- The Commandant and the Five-Franc Coin
- Primary School
- My First Encounter with Wangrin
- The Death of My Big Brother
- The School at Djenné: My Primary Studies Certificate
- The Great Famine of 1914: A Vision of Horror
- Declaration of War
- Flight
- On the Trail with the War Dogs
- The Three Colors of France
- The Land-Roving Pirogue of Metal
- The Abysmal Lair of the Great Black Hyena
- Chapter 6: In the Military Town of Kati
- My New Waaldé Association
- A Hasty Circumcision
- Return to School
- The Warrant Officer and the King’s Son
- Chapter 7: Final Studies in Bamako
- My Second Primary Studies Certificate
- In Vain Pursuit of the Wind
- Boarding School in Bamako
- The Consequences of a Refusal: Exile in Ouagadougou
- I Bid Farewell on the Riverbank
- Translator’s Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Biographies
- Index
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