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One morning the beautiful Ichrak is found murdered in a street in
Casablanca. All the men feared her as much as they desired her . .
. . In a city buffeted by the Chergui, a violent wind emanating
from the Sahara, the investigation becomes a prism through which a
group portrait of a working-class district emerges. In Casablanca
Story, In Koli Jean Bofane trains his razor-sharp observations of a
bitter reality and his mordant humor on corruption among the
powerful, shady property deals, and the vulnerable situation of
migrants and male sexual desire, and he succeeds in transforming a
desperate contemporary reality into engrossing and entertaining
fiction. Following on from Congo Inc., In Koli Jean Bofane shifts
his geographical focus to outline a vision that encompasses both
north and sub-Saharan Africans: Africa is moving forward and is the
equal of the other continents or, to put it another way, Africa is
no better than they are.
To the sound of machine gun fire and the smell of burning flesh,
award-winning author In Koli Jean Bofane leads readers on a
perilous, satirical journey through the civil conflict and
political instability that have been the logical outcome of
generations of rapacious multinational corporate activity, corrupt
governance, widespread civil conflict, human rights abuses, and
environmental degradation in Africa. Isookanga, a Congolese Pygmy,
grows up in a small village with big dreams of becoming rich. His
vision of the world is shaped by his exploits in Raging Trade, an
online game where he seizes control of the world's natural
resources by any means possible: high-tech weaponry, slavery, and
even genocide. Isookanga leaves his sleepy village to make his
fortune in the pulsating capital Kinshasa, where he joins forces
with street children, warlords, and a Chinese victim of
globalization in this blistering novel about capitalism,
colonialism, and the world haunted by the ghosts of Bismarck and
Leopold II. Told with just enough levity to make it truly
heartbreaking, Congo Inc. is a searing tale about ecological,
political, and economic failure.
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