The Suns of Independence

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The Suns of Independence

work by Kourouma

Also known as: “Les soleils des indépendances”

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Ahmadou Kourouma
…Les Soleils des indépendances (1968; The Suns of Independence), satirized contemporary African politics. Narrated in a French flavoured with pungent Malinke folk aphorisms, the story follows the last of a line of tribal princes as he is mistreated by French colonial as well as postindependence African authorities. The work was…
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…Les Soleils des indépendances (1968; The Suns of Independence), satirized contemporary African politics. Narrated in a French flavoured with pungent Malinke folk aphorisms, the story follows the last of a line of tribal princes as he is mistreated by French colonial as well as postindependence African authorities. The work was…
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