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A powerful and affecting novel of Africa's child-soldiers, by French Africa's pre-eminent novelist.
Birahima is ten years old. He lives in the Ivory Coast. He is a soldier. In Ahmadou Kourouma's extraordinary novel, Birahima tells his story.
At the age of ten his mother dies and Birahima leaves his native village, accompanied by the sorcerer/crook Yacouba, to search for his aunt Mahan. Crossing the border into Liberia, they are seized by a rebel force and press-ganged into military service. Birahima is given a Kalashnikov, minimal rations of food, a small supply of dope and a tiny...

Orphaned at the age of seven, Koyaga grows up to be a terrible hunter; he fights mystical beasts, and is a shape-shifter, capable of changing himself into beasts and birds. He fights in the French colonial armies. Over the course of five nights, this title tells the life story of Koyaga, President and Dictator of the Gulf Coast.

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 into military service. Birahima is given a Kalashnikov, minimal rations of food, a small supply of dope and a tiny wage. Fighting in a chaotic civil...

Abends, wenn die Sonne hinter den Bergen versinkt, lsst sich Koyaga, der groe Jger und Prsident einer fiktiven Golfrepublik, sein Leben erzhlen: Als Sohn eines Kriegshelden und einer groen 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...Fesselnd, scharfzngig und mit groer Fantasie erzhlt Kourouma erstaunliche Geschichten. Aus dem Lobgesang des Hofpoeten wird unmerklich eine bitterbse Anklage jeglichen...