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Dry Your Tears, Africa!
Bernard Dadié
1956
Introduction
The Ivorian writer Bernard Binlin Dadié included in his 1956 collection La ronde des jours a poem of appeal titled Sèche tes pleurs,
which would be translated as Dry Your Tears, Africa!
Dadié is one of the premier writers from Ivory Coast (officially called Coôte d'Ivoire) and, in the absence of literary contemporaries from his own nation, is often considered alongside writers from nearby Senegal, where he attended college and began shaping his literary vision. The era during which the poem was written was one of social unease and occasional violent conflict in the region; both Ivory Coast and Senegal were part of federated French West Africa, and both would gain independence peacefully in 1960.
Through the 1950s, with political movements pushing the nations toward freedom from the subjugation and abasement inherent in French rule, voices like Dadié's served to stir the people's imaginations and help them envision proudly reclaiming the land that rightfully belonged to them. Dry Your Tears, Africa!,
with its praise of the continent's natural beauty and its appeals to the land to cast away its sorrows, is a fine example of just such an inspirational poem. First appearing in English as translated by Donatus Ibe Nwoga in his compilation West African Verse: An Anthology (1967), Dadié's poem can also be found in Alan Lomax and Raoul Abdul's 3000 Years of Black Poetry (1970) and in The Heritage of African Poetry: An Anthology of Oral and Written Poetry (1985), edited by Isidore Okpewho.
Author Biography
Dadié was born in Assinie, Ivory Coast, in 1916. His father served in the military, including a stint in Tours, France, and then resigned to become a forester. The young Dadié, who would accompany his mother into the forest on trips gathering firewood, became enamored with the serene flora and fauna there, especially the colorful, musical birds. He would also spend time by the seaside as the fishermen cast their nets and sang through their work. He had three siblings, but they died when they were young.
Around 1922, Dadié went to live with an uncle, Melantchi, in Bingerville, closer to the coastal capital of Abidjan, and his uncle instructed him in farmwork and fishing. He briefly attended