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Le décès d’Ulli Beier
avril 2011 | Décès de personnalités culturelles | Littérature / édition | Nigeria
Français
Il est difficile d’envisager les études africanistes en littérature et dans les arts plastiques sans tenir compte des travaux d’Ulli Beier, décédé le 3 avril 2011 à l’âge de 88 ans.
Lire en anglais ci-dessous l’hommage d’Akin Ogundiran.
Lire en anglais ci-dessous l’hommage d’Akin Ogundiran.
English
Ulli Beier was an omoluabi in the true sense of the word. He single-handedly created a cultural revolution in post-colonial Yorubaland, promoting two generations of artists to develop new styles, new genres, new themes on their own terms. He gave birth to the Osogbo Arts School, made the Upper Osun region come alive as a cultural and creative hub, and organized exhibitions and performances in Nigeria and abroad to promote Yoruba artists. And, he « gave » us Adunni (his former wife) who in turn made Osun Osogbo grove what we are building on today. He joined hands with others to make Yoruba mythologies, folklores, and other genres of Yoruba philosophy the pivot for theorizing about our common humanistic experience.
Erin wo, ajanaku sun bi oke. Kare o Ulli omo Beier, the one who so well mastered the Yoruba arts of masking and turned himself into Obotunde Ijimere.
We will not be sad that you have departed us. It was time to go. You have done the work. We are glad and grateful for what you have done for us, in our land, your land. Let’s roll out the drums and the music to celebrate a life well spent. Akanda eda, oko Georgina. Itinerant scholar oko Adunni.
Mo jokun, mo jekolo, ohun ti wo ba nje lajule orun ni o mo ba won je.
Greet Moronfola, greet Akande Ogun baba Adisa, greet Duro Ladipo, greet Adunni for me when you reach alede orun. Your legacies shall live on.
Akin Ogundiran
Professor of Africana Studies
UNC Charlotte
Ulli Beier sur Wikipedia :
Ulli Beier (30 July 1922 – 3 April 2011) was a German editor, writer and scholar, who had a pioneering role in developing literature, drama and poetry in Nigeria, as well as literature, drama and poetry in Papua New Guinea. His wife Georgina Beier had an instrumental role in simultaneously stimulating the visual arts in both Nigeria and Papua New Guinea.
Beier was born in Glowitz, Germany, in July 1922. His father was a medical doctor and an appreciator of art and raised his son to embrace the arts. After the Nazi party’ rise to power, the Beiers, who are non-practicing Jews, left for Palestine. In Palestine, while his family were briefly detained as enemy aliens by the British authorities, Ulli Beier was able to earn a BA as an external student from the University of London. However, he later moved to London to earn a degree in Phonetics. A few years later, after his first marriage to the Austrian artist Susanne Wenger, he was given a faculty position at the University of Ibadan to teach Phonetics.
(lire la suite sur Wikipedia)
Erin wo, ajanaku sun bi oke. Kare o Ulli omo Beier, the one who so well mastered the Yoruba arts of masking and turned himself into Obotunde Ijimere.
We will not be sad that you have departed us. It was time to go. You have done the work. We are glad and grateful for what you have done for us, in our land, your land. Let’s roll out the drums and the music to celebrate a life well spent. Akanda eda, oko Georgina. Itinerant scholar oko Adunni.
Mo jokun, mo jekolo, ohun ti wo ba nje lajule orun ni o mo ba won je.
Greet Moronfola, greet Akande Ogun baba Adisa, greet Duro Ladipo, greet Adunni for me when you reach alede orun. Your legacies shall live on.
Akin Ogundiran
Professor of Africana Studies
UNC Charlotte
Ulli Beier sur Wikipedia :
Ulli Beier (30 July 1922 – 3 April 2011) was a German editor, writer and scholar, who had a pioneering role in developing literature, drama and poetry in Nigeria, as well as literature, drama and poetry in Papua New Guinea. His wife Georgina Beier had an instrumental role in simultaneously stimulating the visual arts in both Nigeria and Papua New Guinea.
Beier was born in Glowitz, Germany, in July 1922. His father was a medical doctor and an appreciator of art and raised his son to embrace the arts. After the Nazi party’ rise to power, the Beiers, who are non-practicing Jews, left for Palestine. In Palestine, while his family were briefly detained as enemy aliens by the British authorities, Ulli Beier was able to earn a BA as an external student from the University of London. However, he later moved to London to earn a degree in Phonetics. A few years later, after his first marriage to the Austrian artist Susanne Wenger, he was given a faculty position at the University of Ibadan to teach Phonetics.
(lire la suite sur Wikipedia)
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