Poème du Sénégal – Afrique mon Afrique, de David Diop
Afrique est un poème de David Diop. David Mandessi Diop ( 1927-1960) est né à Bordeaux, de mère camerounaise (Maria Mandessi Bell) et de père sénégalais (G. Mamadou Diop Yandé ).
Il entre d’abord en Faculté de Médecine, puis se tourne vers les lettres modernes. Au cours de ses études, David a Léopold Sédar Senghor comme professeur. Après avoir obtenu sa licence, il part pour le Sénégal où il enseigne au lycée Maurice Delafosse.
Ses premiers poèmes sont publiés dans la revue Présence Africaine, et aussitôt reproduits par Léopold Sédar Senghor dans son Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache de langue française en 1948.
Sa poésie est très engagée contre la colonisation. Il publia en 1956 son recueil poétique Coups de pilon aux éditions Présence Africaine. Et il mourut dans un accident d’avion en 1960.
Poème Afrique mon Afrique
Afrique mon Afrique, Afrique des fiers guerriers dans les savanes ancestrales.
Afrique que chante ma grand-mère
Au bord de son fleuve lointain
Je ne t’ai jamais connue.
Mais mon regard est plein de ton sang.
Ton beau sang noir à travers les champs répandu.
Le sang de ta sueur.
La sueur de ton travail.
Le travail de I’ esclavage.
L’esclavage de tes enfants.
Afrique dis-moi Afrique.
Est-ce donc toi ce dos qui se courbe,
Et se couche sous le poids de l’humilité ?
Ce dos tremblant à zébrures rouges,
Qui dit oui au fouet sur les routes de midi ?
Alors gravement une voix me répondit:
Fils impétueux cet arbre robuste et jeune.
Cet arbre là-bas
Splendidement seul au milieu des fleurs blanches et fanées.
C’est I’Afrique ton Afrique qui repousse.
Qui repousse patiemment obstinément.
Et dont les fruits ont peu à peu
L’ amère saveur de la liberté.
David Diop (« Coups de pilon » – Présence Africaine, 1956)
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