Amkoullel, the Fula Boy B Amadou Hampt
Amkoullel, the Fula Boy B Amadou Hampt Born in 1900 in French West Africa, Malian writer Amadou Hamp t B was one of the towering figures in the literature of twentieth-century Francophone Africa. A…
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Amkoullel, the Fula Boy B Amadou Hampt
Born in 1900 in French West Africa, Malian writer Amadou Hamp t B was one of the towering figures in the literature of twentieth-century Francophone Africa. A master storyteller, B 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. In Amkoullel, the Fula Boy, B 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 arrival and installation of French colonialism.
He also charts a larger story of life prior to and under the height of French colonialism: inter-ethnic conflicts, the clashing of colonial schools with Islamic education, and the central role indigenous African intermediaries and interpreters played in