Alioune Badara Bèye Explained

Alioune Badara Bèye (28 September 1945 – 1 December 2024) was a Senegalese civil servant, novelist, playwright, poet and publisher.

In relation to his role as President of L'Association des écrivains du Sénégal (The Senegal Writers' Association),^[1] Bèye was the general coordinator of the Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres (Black Arts World Festival) in Dakar on 14 December 2009.^[2]

Bèye was born in Saint-Louis, Senegal on 28 September 1945, and died on 1 December 2024, at the age of 79.^[3]

Works

• Dialawali, terre de feu ("Dialawali, Land of Fire"), 1980 (theatre)
• Le sacre du cedo ("Cedo Coronation") 1982 (theatre)
• Maba, laisse le Sine ("Maba, leaves the Sine"), 1987 (theatre)
• Nder en flammes ("Nder in Flames"), 1988 (theatre)
• Demain, la fin du monde: un avertissement à tous les dictateurs du monde ("Tomorrow, the End of the World: a Warning of all the World's Dictators"), 1993 (theatre)
• Les larmes de la patrie ("Tears from Homeland"), 2003 (theatre)
• Raki : fille lumière ("Raki: Light Daughter"), 2004 (novel)
• Les bourgeons de l'espoir ("Buds of Hope"), 2005 (poetry)
• De l'uniforme à la plume ("From Uniform to Pen"), 2008

Bibliography

• Peter France, The new Oxford companion to literature in French, Clarendon Press, 1995, p. 90
• Babacar Sall, Poésie du Sénégal, Silex/Agence de coopération culturelle et technique, 1988, p. 5

External links

• Alioune Badara Bèye sur le site du FESMAN 2009

Notes and References

1. News: Une autre manière de rétablir l'histoire . 29 October 2009. Sud Quotidien. French. 30 October 2009.
2. News: African Writers Honour President. 2 May 2009. Modern Ghana. 30 October 2009.
3. News: Alioune Badara Bèye tire sa révérence . 2 December 2024 . Enquête+ . 2 December 2024.