Senegal-LITTERATURE-INITIATIVE
Dakar, Apr 17 (APS) – The Secretary of State for Culture, Creative Industries and Historical Heritage, Bakary Sarr, invited actors in the literature sector to work together on Thursday to give a “much more inclusive” cachet to the next editions of the literary school year in Senegal.
”I think that in the future, we will be able, with the ministry and the actors, to sit down to give a much more inclusive cachet with a communication, so that this literary school year can be an expected event. It is very important. I therefore invite you to this work ”, he said.
Speaking during the first edition of the literary school year in Senegal, an initiative of the Senegalese Association of Publishers (ASE), focused on the theme “Literary sovereignty: possibilities and perspectives”, the Minister Secretary of State, called in particular to reflect on a format allowing a great participation during the next return.
He believes that this “innovative” initiative, carried by ASE, testifies to “dynamism and corporate spirit” of the actors of this sub-sector.
”(…) It fits perfectly into the orientations of our cultural policy, the main lines of which have been recalled in the form of prospective orientations on the occasion of the Council of Ministers of February 5,” he insists.
Considering himself from the choice of the godfather, Professor Abdoulaye Elimane Kane, and of the speaker the Professor Alioune Badara Diane, both “models of knowledge drawing from indigenous wisdom that from universal thought”, he noted that the theme of publishing invites to make the national literary productions known more.
The promotion and promotion of national literary production, according to the Minister, ” a strong issue of sovereignty ”, insofar as literature remains in its understanding, a “powerful vector of knowledge of cultures and psychology of communities”.
He meets the book sector at the next book forum, an initiative of the head of state Bassirou Diomaye Faye, scheduled for next June.
For her part, the president of the Association of publishers of Senegal, Aminata Sy, also Director of the new African Editions of Senegal (Neas) recalled only in all the countries where the book industry develops, national publishers have the support, support and assistance of the State.
This support is manifested, according to her, through voluntary flexibility policies, training and access to funding to create the conditions for endogenous development.
However, she invited decision -makers to take and stimulate official measures required to create conditions for a “strong and competitive” national edition, through national preference, while granting a quota to Senegalese publishing houses.
”(…) This first literary school year comes at a time when the question of sovereignty is placed in the lead, in the pharmacy of the concerns of those who govern us,” said the president of the scientific committee, Waly Bâ.
He believes that cultural sovereignty remains “an essential lever in the remobilization of identity resources ”. From his point of view, it would be ‘almost suicidal “not to take it into account.
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