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Birahima, un enfant africain orphelin, part à la recherche de sa tante et tutrice Mahan. Il est accompagné par Yacouba, le féticheur. Lors de leur périple à travers le Liberia et la Sierra Leone, ils tentent de gagner leur vie, Yacouba comme grigriman et Birahima comme enfant-soldat. Prix Renaudot 2000, prix Goncourt des lycéens 2000.

Ahmadou Kourouma's award winning novel, The Suns of Independence is one of the great classics of Francophone African literature, capturing the dreams and struggles of a newly independent nation. Fama is the last of an ancient line of Dumbuya princes who, before the Europeans came, reigned undisputed over the Malinke tribe. Yet even after independence, Fama is forced to beg for his place amongst the bureaucratic elite. Meanwhile, his wife, Sal...

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The full, final and completely complete title of my bullshit story is: Allah is not obliged to be fair about all things he does here on earth'Birahima's story is one of horror and laughter.

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È la storia romanzata di dittatori africani dalla decolonizzazione ai giorni nostri, di personaggi incredibili, crudeli e stravaganti. Inizialmente c'è la formazione militare dell'esercito coloniale francese, con guerre in Indocina e Algeria e l'apprendimento delle moderne tecniche per la reppressione e l'annientamento delle rivolte popolari. Successivamente i protagonisti diventano autori di colpi di stato militari e delle conseguenti sanguin...

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Characterized as "the African Voltaire", Ahmadou Kourouma garnered enormous critical and popular praise upon the 1998 release of his third novel, En attendant le vote des betes sauvages. Kourouma received the Prix ties Tropiques, among other prestigious prizes, for that book, and the French edition went on to sell 100, 000 copies. His most recent novel, Allah n'est pas oblige, is the winner of this year's Prix Renaudot.Carrol F. Coates's trans...

Birahima, le narrateur de ce roman, a une douzaine d'années et il retrace son itinéraire d'enfant-soldat de l'Afrique contemporaine, entre le Liberia et la Sierra Leone.Orphelin, jeté sur les routes en compagnie d'un marabout mi-philosophe mi-escroc, Birahima se fait enrôler dans une bande de pillards. Kalachnikov en bandoulière, pour gagner sa solde, il va bientôt participer aux pires exactions : " D...

Mit Hexerei, islamischen Gebeten, exzessiven Opfergaben und dem Bau eines mas­siven Schutzwalls will König Djigui Keita sein vollendetes Reich vor den vorrückenden französischen Eroberern schützen. Doch eines Tages steht plötzlich eine französische Kolonne vor ihm, die völlig unbehelligt über den verzauberten Hügel geritten kam und nun freundlich grüßt. Der intrigante Übersetzer, den die Franzosen mitbringen, gehört zu allem Überfluss zum Clan...

Protagonista della storia è il re di Soba, un centro dell'impero mandingo: Gighi Keita, il cui regno dura 120 anni e la cui terra viene conquistata e sottomessa dai "Nazareni" (i bianchi) francesi a inizio 900. I cantori delle imprese reali, i griot, celebrano la gloria di Gighi che ha impedito la conversione del suo popolo dalla religione musulmana al cristianesimo, anche se in realtà il re nulla può contro una dominazione che porta morte e d...

Ahmadou Kourouma was born in 1927 in the small town of Boundiali in the Ivory Coast. As a young man he fought in the French colonial army in Indochina and studied science in France. On returning to the Ivory Coast he worked in insurance, but having fallen foul of the regime was jailed for a number of months and subsequently went into exile. He returned for four years in the early 1970s before leaving the country once more, living in Togo and C...

ALLAH IS NOT OBLIGED TO BE FAIR ABOUT ALL THE THINGS HE DOES HERE ON EARTH.These are the words of the boy soldier Birahima in the final masterpiece by one of Africa's most celebrated writers, Ahmadou Kourouma. When ten-year-old Birahima's mother dies, he leaves his native village in the Ivory Coast, accompanied by the sorcerer and cook Yacouba, to search for his aunt Mahan. Crossing the border into Liberia, they are seized by rebels and forced...

Ahmadou Kourouma racconta le guerre e i disastri del suo continente, scegliendo l'unico registro che forse è ancora possibile di fronte a tanta atrocità, quello del sarcasmo e dell'iperbole. Il romanzo segue le tracce di Birahima, il bambino-soldato, attraverso le innumerevoli guerre tribali, di liberazione, di saccheggio, scatenate dai signori della guerra appoggiati e armati volta per volta da qualche potenza occidentale per ottenere diamant...

Sechs Nächte lang lässt sich Koyaga, der große Jäger und Präsident einer fiktiven Republik in Westafrika, sein Leben von einem Griot, einem Hofpoeten, erzählen. Als Sohn eines Kriegshelden und einer großen Zauberin hatte Koyaga ideale Voraussetzungen, erster Mann des Staates zu werden und dies unter Einsatz aller Mittel - Mord, Raub, Korruption, Vergewaltigung - zu bleiben. Doch dann kommt die Demokratisierung und Wahlen stehen an. Aus dem Lob...