Tierno Bokar - Fame

Fame

  • A book written by a pupil of his, Amadou Hampate Ba, titled Vie et enseignement de Tierno Bokar: Le sage de Bandiagara (translated into English under “A Spirit of Tolerance: The Inspiring Life of Tierno Bokar”) introduced him to the non-African world. (Originally published in 1957, under the title Tierno Bokar: Le Sage de Bandiagara, with co-author Marcel Cardaire.)
  • Bokar’s life story was later made into a play directed by Peter Brook entitled Tierno Bokar.
  • Brook made the story of prayer repetitions into another play, entitled 11 & 12, which ran at the Barbican Centre (London) in early 2010.
  • The poet Maabal described Bokar with the following poem:
“ A constant smile which calls you

A forehead shining like a mirror
A mirror stamped
With the dark point of prostration.

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