Today, We will look at a poem by the most celebrated Ivorian writer Bernard Binlin Dadié. The poem below is titled “I Thank you God” or “I thank you my God,” and it is an ode to us Africans, raising the self-esteem. Dadié writes here about his pride of being born Black, around independence, when the colonizer had almost beaten out of us our pride of being Black, our pride of being ‘us’. Enjoy! a great poem from Bernard B. Dadié.
Je vous remercie mon Dieu, de m’avoir créé Noir, d’avoir fait de moi la somme de toutes les douleurs, mis sur ma tête, le Monde. J’ai la livrée du Centaure Et je porte le Monde depuis le premier matin. Le blanc est une couleur de circonstance Je suis content Je vous remercie mon Dieu, de m’avoir créé Noir, Je suis quand même Je vous remercie mon Dieu, de m’avoir créé Noir, |
I thank you God, for making me black, for making me the sum of all pains, putting on my head the world. I took the world to the Centaur And I have carried the world since the first morning. White is a color of circumstance I am happy I thank you God, for having created me black I am still I thank you God, for having created me black, |
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i’m very happy
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i’m glad
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lLe meilleur poème qui ait jamais été écrit sur terre à la gloire des NOIRS
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“Rama Kam” de David Diop également… des chefs d’œuvre KMIT…
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The greatest poem ever written in the world for BLACK glory
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Heureux de lire cet homme. Un auteur immense qui a pratiqué tous les genres littéraires. B.B.D. Respect à l’homme que rien n’a corrompu. Merci.
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Vous l’avez si bien dit, BBD est un homme integre et un grand ecrivain africain.
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Reblogged this on She Stopped Shopping (Mostly). and commented:
I had to recite this in 10th grade for extra credit…it popped in my head when I was looking at the cost of skincare – some 25+ years later…God made and makes all things and people beautiful, but aging is tough and expensive [i.e. 265$ AUGUSTINUS BADER THE RICH CREAM].
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Thanks for sharing… it must have been fun in 10th grade…
I would not have associated it with skin care products.
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Fun lead to the need for extra credit 😀
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