Sirah Baldé Explained
| Sirah Baldé |
| Birth Name: | Sirah Baldé de Labé |
| Birth Place: | Labé, Guinea |
| Death Place: | Conakry, Guinea |
Sirah Baldé de Labé (1929–2018) was a Guinean novelist and teacher.
Baldé was born in Labé in 1929.[1] [2] She studied to be a teacher in Rufisque, Senegal and has said that she was the first woman to teach French in the former kingdom of Fula, Imamate of Futa Jallon, during the French occupation.[1]
Baldé is best known for her 1985 novel D'un Fouta-Djalloo à l'autre (From One Futa Jalon to the Other), published by La Pensée Universelle.[3] The work was a four-volume family saga set in the 18th century and featuring themes of tribal war.[4] She appeared on the Guinean television programme Papier plume Parole in 1986 to speak about the work.[4] Like other novels authored by French-speaking African women writers (such as Awa Thiam and Henriette Diabaté) from the same period, it is written in the first person in the style of an autobiography.[5] The scholar Jean-Marie Volet noted in 2008 that the book is "almost impossible to find", but that Baldé's writing as a pioneer of French education "is most important".[6]
She died in 2018 at Conakry, and was buried at Labé.[4]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Sirah BALDE DE LABE . Lire les femmes écrivains et les littératures africaines . University of Western Australia . 22 March 2024 . fr.
- Web site: Sirah Baldé de Labé (1929-2018) . BnF data . 22 March 2024 . en.
- Book: O'Toole, Thomas . Baker, Janice E. . Historical Dictionary of Guinea. Volume 94 of African historical dictionaries, Scarecrow Press. 2005. 17. 0-8108-4634-9.
- News: Keita . Mohamed Salifou . Décès d'Aissatou Sirah Baldé, pionnière de la plume guinéenne au féminin . 22 March 2024 . Guineenews . 18 July 2018 . fr-FR.
- Book: Yigbe . Dotsé . Assemboni . Amatso O. . Akakpo . Kuassi A. . L'Afrique post/coloniale. Das post/koloniale Afrika . 2018 . LIT Verlag Münster . 9783643138095 . 56 . 22 March 2024 . fr.
- Web site: Volet . Jean-Marie . Keeping track of women writing: African penwomen of the colonial era . 22 March 2024 . 2008 . Lire les femmes écrivains et les littératures africaines . University of Western Australia.
