Poetry
Chants du Gabon
Not translated into English
Georges Rawiri · 1975
Synopsis
Poems that celebrate Gabon: its culture and the unity of the nation. The poet sings of the country rather than contesting it, and his texts are addressed first of all to schoolchildren, for whom the collection was published with illustrations. They thus stand opposed, in the letters of the country, to the poetry of silence and revolt that emerges in the same years.
Context
The collection appeared in 1975 from a Paris publisher, in forty-eight pages illustrated by Claude Vachon-Delval, with a note mentioning the cours moyen and sixième classes: it is intended for school. Its author was then a member of the government. The history of Gabonese poetry places it in the contemplative vein of the 1970s, in contrast to the revolutionary tone of the poets of silence. The national radio building in Libreville now bears his name.
Who it is for
In French, short poems, published for pupils at the end of primary school and the beginning of lower secondary school.
Prizes and reception
Cited by the history of Gabonese letters as a title of the contemplative and patriotic vein of the 1970s.
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