a study on Negro-African aesthetics

Principal country concerned : Column : Literature
Release/publication date : February 2004
Published on : 05/02/2004
Source : Tiego TIEMTORE, journaliste culturel à Ouagadougou
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The theme he chose was about "The great figures of Negro African aesthetics in Jean Marie Adiaffi's Carte d'identité".

He was ranked "very honorable" by the members of the Department of Arts of the University of Ouagadougou, thanks to the quality in his resaerch and the way he defended his paper.
He wanted to further his master degree , then chose the prized novel by Jean Marie Adiaffi entitled "Là carte d'idendité (a 159 page novel, published in 1980 and which received the great literary prize of Black Africa).
For the young researcher from Burkina Faso, the literary aesthetics is inspired by culture in Akan soil. His novel becomes then the setting to express his language, traditions, and customs .
The understanding he has from aesthetics from Western writers such as Gobineau, Kant, Hume, and Hégél, permits him to further the reflection so as to talk about African aesthetics with Harris Memel Fotê from Ivory Coast.
The signs and landmarks of African aesthetics, their identification and relation with orality in the novel discourse, the novel theory from Mouhamadou Kane from Senegal, are the second part of his study which helps better understand Negro-African literature.

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