François-Joseph Amon d'Aby

François-Joseph Amon d'Aby (1913–2007) was a French-language playwright and essayist in the Côte d'Ivoire.[1]

Life

Amon d’Aby started work in the government archives in 1937, rising to become their director.[2]

He was a pioneer of Ivorian theatre. He wrote plays for several organizations: Le Théâtre Indigène de la Côte d'Ivoire (TICI), which he founded with Germain Coffi Gadeau in 1938; the Cercle Culturel et Folklorique de la Côte d'Ivoire (CCFCI), which he, Gadeau and Bernard Dadié founded in 1953; and the Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne [Young Christian Workers’ Association] (JOC). Though his earlier plays were based upon Ivorian oral literature, his later plays also borrowed from European traditions.[1] Generally moralizing, his plays attacked some traditional social paractices (e.g. matriarchy in Kwao Adjoba, or clan parasitism in Entraves) as outdated in a modern society.[3]

Amon d'Aby also edited collections of folk tales, and published several cultural and sociological studies of the Côte d'Ivoire.[1]

Works

Plays

References

  1. 1 2 3 Wangar Wa Nyateũ-Waigwa, , in Simon Gikandi, ed., Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge; 2002. ISBN 978-0-415-23019-3
  2. ↑ Anthony Graham-White, The drama of black Africa, 1974, p.75
  3. ↑ Albert S. Gérard, European-language writing in sub-Saharan Africa, Volume 1, p. 138

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