Literature for children: Oury Koné with an open heart with toddlers
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- 20 Feb 2023
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The French Institute of Mali (IFM) hosted on Saturday October 22, 2022, a talk-debate between the author of the storybook "Nagnouma, the mysterious and the children".
Engaged for the promotion of her book, this talk-debate is part of a literary tour which respectively led the young author, Oury Koné, to private education colleges, Wa Kamissoko, Cheick Modibo Diarra, the future and the Sequoias. .
The stage of the French Institute of Mali was moderated by Alassane Koné, working within this institute. He introduced the author of the book.
According to the young author, Oury Koné, from Ségou (a land steeped in history) born in 1990, this book is the realization of a childhood dream. Entrusted to her grandmother at the age of eight (8), she said she told her many stories. This developed in her an almost visceral passion for the tales she read in books.
“As an adult, I said to myself that if tales like Cinderella, Snow White, Little Chick, made me travel to worlds far from mine, why not make others travel to our country, make them discover this important aspect of our cultural heritage which is the tale" she indicated to specify the motivations of the publication of this work of great didactic and ludic value.
In addition, she said that she had made some alterations to the original tale to convey messages that she found important. According to him, these alterations relate to the personalization of the character and the level of the outcome of the tale. Before affirming that the original version of the tale only describes Nagnouma as a beautiful young girl, she added the features of beauty: long hair, magnificent and shiny teeth, straight nose etc. But also at the level of the final situation in which she substituted friendship for love (celebrated in the original version) to highlight it.
Then she told the tale to the children who were all eyes, all ears. According to her, the daughter of a genius, therefore endowed with supernatural powers, Nagnouma was a very young girl, the most beautiful in her village. She took part neither in social ceremonies (baptisms, marriages) nor in games between young girls in the moonlight, because Oury asserted, she had a long tail that she majestically concealed in her long armchair. Unhappy that her daughter had not carried out her commission, her mother lectured her and awkwardly revealed her secret in front of her audience who regularly came to take advice from her. Wounded in her self-esteem, she brings drought and heat down on the village. Her mother, the village elders, begged her to reconsider her position. She did not comply. Read More…
