Poésie et pop musique au Gabon. Lecture thématique de l’oeuvre du poète-chanteur et auteur-compositeur Pierre Claver Akendengué
Poetry and Pop Music in Gabon. Thematic Reading of the Work of the Poet-singer and Author-composer Pierre Claver Akenden

Summary/Abstract: This article brings together several titles on the work of singer-poet Pierre Claver Akendengué, songwriter and pan-African musician of Gabonese origin. It aims to highlight the close relationship between poetry and music, but also the influence of pop culture on local poetic writing. Verlaine writes that poetry is “music above all things” ([1874] 2009: 21). Poetry is the genre that has been able to integrate into the contemporary wind by linking to other arts (music, photography, cinema). Pierre Claver Akendengué whose musical work puts him at the pedestal of the icons of Gabonese music is also a thurifer of pop music in Gabon. By making a thematic study of his texts, we intend to link the different themes that make up the work of the poet-musician in order to bring out their significance (Riffaterre, 1983: 25). The thematic reading proposes to elucidate the relationship between “living” and poetic “saying” via song, because literature, if we are to believe Jean-Pierre Richard, is “discovery of a true perspective on oneself -even, on life, men; it is the adventure of being” (1954: 14).

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