This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans
living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France
wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a
Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut
farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in
Moki's footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where
Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of
out-of-work undocumented immigrants. After a botched attempt to
sell metro passes purchased with a stolen checkbook, he winds up in
jail and is deported. Blue White Red is a novel of postcolonial
Africa where young people born into poverty dream of making it big
in the cities of their former colonial masters. Alain Mabanckou's
searing commentary on the lives of Africans in France is cut with
the parody of African villagers who boast of a son in the country
of Digol. -- Indiana University Press
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