Annette Mbaye d’Erneville (born 23 June 1926) is a
Senegal
Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤠(Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤠ðž ...
ese
writer
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.
She is the mother of filmmaker
Ousmane William Mbaye, and was the subject of his 2008 documentary film, ''
Mère-Bi''.
Career
Born in 1926 in
Sokone
Sokone is a town in the Fatick Region of central Senegal.
Sokone is a tranquil town on the south-eastern Sine-Saloum Delta amid the mangroves. It is located on the N5 road from Kaolack to Banjul, 50 km south of Kaolack and 66 km north ...
, Senegal,
and educated locally, she began her working life as a teacher. In 1947 she went to France to study journalism, and since 1963 was active in Radio Senegal, rising to become Director of Programmes. She has also been a journalist specializing in women's issues and in 1963 launched
''Awa'' magazine, the first francophone publication for African women.
Margaret Busby
Margaret Yvonne Busby, , Hon. FRSL (born 1944), also known as Nana Akua Ackon, is a Ghanaian-born publisher, editor, writer and broadcaster, resident in the UK. She was Britain's youngest and first black female book publisherJazzmine Breary"Let' ...
(ed.), '' Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent'', London: Jonathan Cape, 1992; Vintage, 1993, p. 330. She specialises in writing children's literature and poetry and is associated with the
Musée de la Femme Henriette-Bathily in
Gorée.
Works
*1965: ''Poèmes africains''
*1966: ''Kaddu'' (réédition des poèmes)
*1976: ''Chansons pour Laïty''
*1983: ''Le Noël du vieux chasseur''
*1983: ''La Bague de cuivre et d'argent'' (prix Jeune Afrique in 1961)
*2003: ''Motte de terre et motte de beurre''
*2003: ''Picc l'Oiseau et Lëpp-Lëpp le papillon''
Bibliography
* Aliane, "Mme Mbaye d'Erneville, directrice des programmes à l'Office de radiodiffusion du Sénégal", ''Amina'', n° 32, July 1975, pp. 21–23.
* Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana, "Annette Mbaye d'Erneville (Sénégal)", in ''Littérature féminine francophone d'Afrique noire'', Paris,
L'Harmattan, 2000, pp. 374–81.
* Annette Mbaye d'Erneville (Sénégal), ''Audrey, future princesse d'Erneville''.
References
External links
Biographie(article d'Angèle Bassolé Ouédraogo, 1998)
*
ttps://www.ashoka.org/en-gb/fellow/annette-mbaye-d%27erneville "Annette Mbaye D'Erneville"at Ashoka
1926 births
Living people
Senegalese poets
Senegalese women writers
People from Fatick Region
Senegalese women poets
20th-century poets
20th-century women writers
21st-century poets
21st-century women writers
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