Annette Mbaye D'Erneville

Please meet my Antie from Senegal - an amazing women, journalist, poet, feminist, curator, writer and the most alive and funny person I know.

Here is the link to a film "Mere Bi" (The mother) made by her son Willy Mbaye. enjoy.
The movie


Annette MBAYE D'ERNEVILLE (born in 1926)

Annette M'baye was born in Sokone Senegal in 1926. Unlike many of her contemporaries,Annette M'Baye was educated primarily in Senegal, receiving her teaching degree from the École Normale d'Institutrices (Teacher's College) in Rufisque, 1945. After a short tenure as the General Superintendent of the École Normale in Rufisique, M'baye left Senegal to study teaching and education in Paris. Upon her return to Senegal in 1959, M'baye became a reporter and (in 1960) the commissary of the Regional Information in Diourbel. In 1963 M'baye founded and became principal editor of the Senegalese women's magazine "Awa." Still immersed in journalism, she became Program Director of Radio Senegal shortly thereafter.

Throughout her various careers, M'baye continued writing poetry. While she does not completely avoid the African struggle for independence, M'baye rarely ventures into the political treatises of her Senegalese colleagues, David Diop and Leopold Sedar Senghor. Her two published volumes explore her love for humanity, the trials of human endeavor, and, especially, the power of women in African society. Highly personal and stylized, her work continues the African poetry tradition of her generation by breaking at the walls of free-form expression.

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