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          Amadou Hampâté Bâ (c.!

          Amkoullel, the Fula Boy (Duke University Press, ) is the first volume of Hampâté Bâ's memoirs, covering the earliest years of his life.

        1. Articles in this issue examine different aspects of this search for cultural identity in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America.
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        4. This piece was adapted by Marie-Hélène Estienne from a memoir by Amadou Hampaté Bâ, a Malian writer and diplomat who was Bokar's student.

          5. Amadou Hampâté Bâ

          Malian writer, historian and ethnologist

          Amadou Hampâté Bâ (Fula: 𞤀𞤸𞤥𞤢𞤣𞤵 𞤖𞤢𞤥𞤨𞤢𞥄𞤼𞤫 𞤄𞤢𞥄, romanized:&#;Ahmadu Hampaate Baa, / &#; 15 May ) was a Malian writer, historian, and ethnologist.

          He was an influential figure in the twentieth-century African literature and cultural heritage. A champion of Africa's oral tradition and traditional knowledge, he is remembered for the saying: "whenever an old man dies, it is as though a library were burning down" ("un vieillard qui meurt, c'est une bibliothèque qui brûle").[1]

          Biography

          Amadou Hampâté Bâ was born to an aristocratic Fula family in Bandiagara, the largest city in Dogon territory, and the capital of the precolonial Masina Empire.

          At the time of his birth, the area was known as French Sudan as part of the colonial French West Africa, which was formally established a few years before his birth. After his father's death, he was adopted by his mother's second husband, Tidjani Ama