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...
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...
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 des Tropiques, among other prestigious prizes, for that book, and the French edition went on to sell 100,000 copies.
Carrol F. Coates's translation, Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals, introduces English-language audiences to Kourouma's irreverent view of the machinations of the African dictators who played the West against the East during the thirty years of the...
Characterized as -the African Voltaire, - Ahmadou Kourouma garnered enormous critical and popular praise upon the 1998 release of his third novel, ...
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...
Abends, wenn die Sonne hinter den Bergen versinkt, lsst sich Koyaga, der groe Jger und Prsident einer fiktiven Golfrepublik, sein Leben erzhlen: Als S...
