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Title:Amadou Hampâté Bâ and the writer Robert Arnaud (Randau): African colonial service and literature
Author:Pondopoulo, AnnaISNI
Year:2010
Periodical:Islamic Africa (ISSN 2154-0993)
Volume:1
Issue:2
Pages:229-247
Language:English
Geographic term:West Africa
Subjects:colonial administrators
literature
About persons:Amadou Hampaté Bâ (1900-1991)ISNI
Robert Arnaud (1873-1950)
External link:https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-90000018
Abstract:This article explores the possible links between the literary works of the writer and colonial administrator, Robert Arnaud (1873-1950; better known by his literary pseudonym Robert Randau) and Amadou Hampaté Bâ. The author of 'Wangrin' and 'Oui, mon commandant!' was well acquainted with Arnaud who, following a career devoted largely to Islamic issues, became in 1924 an inspector of administrative affairs in Upper Volta (present-day Burkina Faso) and, in 1927-1928, served as acting governor of this territory. The personal papers of Arnaud both shed new light on certain administrative incidents that are also described in the works of Hampâté Bâ and allow us to think in new ways about the role played by Africans in French colonial rule. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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