The Mbari Club (original) (raw)
The Mbari Club was a centre for cultural activity by African writers, artists and musicians that was founded in Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1961 by Ulli Beier, with the involvement of a group of young writers including Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe. Mbari, an Igbo concept related to "creation", was suggested as the name by Achebe. Among other Mbari members were Christopher Okigbo, J. P. Clark and South African writer Ezekiel Mphahlele, Frances Ademola, Demas Nwoko, Mabel Segun, Uche Okeke, Arthur Nortje and Bruce Onobrakpeya.
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| dbo:abstract | Le Mbari Club est un centre d’activités culturelles composé d’écrivains, d’artistes et de musiciens africains, créé à Ibadan (Nigeria) en 1961 par Ulli Beier, avec la participation d’un groupe de jeunes écrivains, notamment Wole Soyinka et Chinua Achebe. Le nom de Mbari est un concept en igbo suggéré par Achebe, inspiré par l'art Mbari. Parmi les autres membres de Mbari figuraient (en), (en), Es'kia Mphahlele, Frances Ademola, (en), Mabel Segun, Uche Okeke, (en) et Bruce Onobrakpeya. Le Daily Telegraph, dans une notice nécrologique de Beier, a déclaré que « le club Mbari est devenu synonyme d'optimisme et d'exubérance créative de l'Afrique après l'indépendance. Fela Kuti a fait ses débuts en tant que chef de bande et est devenu un pôle d'attraction pour les artistes et les écrivains de toute l'Afrique, d'Amérique et des Caraïbes. » Selon les mots de Toyin Adepoju : « Venant de naître dans les fluctuations de la période de pré-indépendance et de post-indépendance immédiate au Nigeria, il a réuni une constellation d'artistes dont le travail incarne la qualité de transformation incarnée par l'esthétique de la création, la décadence, et la régénération évoquée par la tradition Mbari. » Le Mbari Club est très lié au magazine littéraire Black Orpheus, fondé par Beier en 1957. Il a également été éditeur dans les années 1960 — il est d'ailleurs considéré comme le seul éditeur de littérature africaine basé en Afrique à cette époque — produisant 17 titres rédigés par des écrivains africains, notamment les premières œuvres de Clark, Okigbo et Soyinka, des poèmes de (en) (Okiri, 1961), Alex La Guma (A Walk in the Night and Other Stories, 1962), Dennis Brutus (Sirens, Knuckles, Boots, 1963), Kofi Awoonor et (en) ainsi que des traductions de la poésie francophone. (fr) The Mbari Club was a centre for cultural activity by African writers, artists and musicians that was founded in Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1961 by Ulli Beier, with the involvement of a group of young writers including Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe. Mbari, an Igbo concept related to "creation", was suggested as the name by Achebe. Among other Mbari members were Christopher Okigbo, J. P. Clark and South African writer Ezekiel Mphahlele, Frances Ademola, Demas Nwoko, Mabel Segun, Uche Okeke, Arthur Nortje and Bruce Onobrakpeya. The Daily Telegraph in an obituary of Beier noted that "the Mbari Club became synonymous with the optimism and creative exuberance of Africa’s post-independence era. Fela Kuti made his debut as bandleader there, and it became a magnet for artists and writers from all over Africa, America and the Caribbean." In the words of Toyin Adepoju: "Coming to birth in the flux of the preindependence and immediate postindependence period in Nigeria, it brought together a constellation of artists whose work embodied the quality of transformation embodied by the aesthetic of creation, decay, and regeneration evoked by the Mbari tradition." Closely connected with the literary magazine Black Orpheus, which Beier had founded in 1957, Mbari also acted as a publisher during the 1960s — considered to be the only African-based publisher of African literature at the time — producing 17 titles by African writers. Mbari published early works by Clark, Okigbo and Soyinka, poetry by Bakare Gbadamosi (Okiri, 1961), Alex La Guma (A Walk in the Night and Other Stories, 1962), Dennis Brutus (Sirens, Knuckles, Boots, 1963), Kofi Awoonor and Lenrie Peters, as well as translations of francophone poetry. Brutus was chosen as winner of the Mbari Prize, awarded to a black poet of distinction, but turned it down on the grounds of its racial exclusivity. (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | The Mbari Club was a centre for cultural activity by African writers, artists and musicians that was founded in Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1961 by Ulli Beier, with the involvement of a group of young writers including Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe. Mbari, an Igbo concept related to "creation", was suggested as the name by Achebe. Among other Mbari members were Christopher Okigbo, J. P. Clark and South African writer Ezekiel Mphahlele, Frances Ademola, Demas Nwoko, Mabel Segun, Uche Okeke, Arthur Nortje and Bruce Onobrakpeya. (en) Le Mbari Club est un centre d’activités culturelles composé d’écrivains, d’artistes et de musiciens africains, créé à Ibadan (Nigeria) en 1961 par Ulli Beier, avec la participation d’un groupe de jeunes écrivains, notamment Wole Soyinka et Chinua Achebe. Le nom de Mbari est un concept en igbo suggéré par Achebe, inspiré par l'art Mbari. Parmi les autres membres de Mbari figuraient (en), (en), Es'kia Mphahlele, Frances Ademola, (en), Mabel Segun, Uche Okeke, (en) et Bruce Onobrakpeya. Le Mbari Club est très lié au magazine littéraire Black Orpheus, fondé par Beier en 1957. (fr) |
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