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The Culture of Peace in African Literature
an article by Le Faso, Burkina Faso
This work aims to show how a culture of peace is
promoted in African literature and how the literary
message can be used to advance the struggle for
peace in the world. It is both theoretical and
practical in its approach.
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The book tries to understand the issues of
conflict and identify literary mechanisms that
promote the culture of peace, before making
proposals to optimize the contribution of
literature to the culture of peace. Its approach
is multidisciplinary, combining anthropology,
social criticism, political science, theories of
international relations and geopolitics, to
understand the content ot the literary works that
are studied.
The author, San Simon Coulibaly, was born December
31, 1980 at Tapoko (Toussiana) in Burkina Faso.
He holds a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Modern
Literature (oral literature option) and a Diploma
of Higher Studies in Diplomacy and International
Relations .
He is recognized as a very brilliant student
successively valedictorian at the University of
Ouagadougou, at the Diplomatic Institute and
International Relations (IDRI) and the National
School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM) .
He is currently Advisor of Foreign Affairs to the
Department of Institutional Questions and
Sovereignty of the Prime Ministry of his country.
The book is available from Editions L'Harmattan -
Burkina Faso, for 15.50 euros. It was published in
2010 with 156 pages.
(Click here for a French version of this article)
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