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Africa Beyond The Mirror (Paperback)
Boubacar Boris Diop; Translated by Caroline Beschea-Fache, Vera Wulfing-Leckie
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R520
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Discovery Miles 4 230
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The media tends to portray Africa in a manner that grossly distorts
reality. The picture they paint is intended to make people of
African descent feel ashamed of their past and their identity. This
is unacceptable and must change. It is therefore a moral imperative
for all those who can make themselves heard, to speak out. These
texts reflect the point of view of an African intellectual who has
selected them for this volume because they were all born out of the
desire to tell the truth as it is.
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Kaveena (Hardcover)
Boubacar Boris Diop; Translated by Bhakti Shringarpure, Sara C. Hanaburgh; Foreword by Ayo A. Coly
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Discovery Miles 15 560
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This dark and suspenseful novel tells the story of a fictitious
West African country caught in the grip of civil war. The
dispassionate and deadpan narrator, Asante Kroma, is a former head
of Secret Services and finds himself living with the corpse of the
dictator, a man who once ruled his nation with an iron fist.
Through a series of flashbacks and letters penned by the dictator,
N'Zo Nikiema, readers discover the role of the French shadow
leader, Pierre Castaneda, whose ongoing ambition to exploit the
natural resources of the country knows no limits. As these powerful
men use others as pawns in a violent real-life chess match, it is
the murder of six-year-old Kaveena and her mother's quest for
vengeance that brings about a surprise reckoning.
In April of 1994, nearly a million Rwandans were killed in what
would prove to be one of the swiftest, most terrifying killing
sprees of the 20th century. In Murambi, The Book of Bones, Boubacar
Boris Diop comes face to face with the chilling horror and
overwhelming sadness of the tragedy. Here, the power of Diop's
acclaimed novel is available to English-speaking readers through
Fiona Mc Laughlin's crisp translation and a compelling afterword by
Diop. The novel recounts the story of a Rwandan history teacher,
Cornelius Uvimana, who was living and working in Djibouti at the
time of the massacre. He returns to Rwanda to try to comprehend the
death of his family and to write a play about the events that took
place there. As the novel unfolds, Cornelius begins to understand
that it is only our humanity that will save us, and that as a
writer, he must bear witness to the atrocities of the genocide.
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Kaveena (Paperback)
Boubacar Boris Diop; Translated by Bhakti Shringarpure, Sara C. Hanaburgh; Foreword by Ayo A. Coly
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R634
Discovery Miles 6 340
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This dark and suspenseful novel tells the story of a fictitious
West African country caught in the grip of civil war. The
dispassionate and deadpan narrator, Asante Kroma, is a former head
of Secret Services and finds himself living with the corpse of the
dictator, a man who once ruled his nation with an iron fist.
Through a series of flashbacks and letters penned by the dictator,
N'Zo Nikiema, readers discover the role of the French shadow
leader, Pierre Castaneda, whose ongoing ambition to exploit the
natural resources of the country knows no limits. As these powerful
men use others as pawns in a violent real-life chess match, it is
the murder of six-year-old Kaveena and her mother's quest for
vengeance that brings about a surprise reckoning.
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