Mali Literature
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Description: Introduction to Malian literature and authors.
As the historian Adame Konaré Ba explains, the arrival of the French in Mali is very recent considering the very long history of this country. It only dates back to the second half of the 19th century, a period marked by the fall of Ségou, the repression of numerous resistance movements and the downfall of the great Moslem chiefs, such as El Hadj Omar and Samori, two figures symbolic of Moslem resistance against the Christian influence in Africa. A few texts in French can be attributed to French explorers and military of that time, but strictly speaking, literature written in French only dates from 1950, the year that
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