The volume presents 15 unpublished short stories by the great African writer. born in the twentieth century in bandiagara, at the foot of the rocky walls of the dogon country, died in 1991 in abidjan, amadou Hampâté bâ, historian, storyteller, poet, is above all known throughout the world for the struggle that led to unesco in favor of rehabilitation of African oral traditions. It was here that in 1962, calling for an urgent action to collect and safeguard those oral traditions before their last custodians disappeared, he uttered the phrase which later became so famous that it was sometimes quoted as an African proverb: "in africa, when an old man dies it's a burning library. »