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" The Poor Christ of Bomba, Mongo Beti of

I continue to alternating classical and new discoveries. The Poor Christ of Bomba (1956), the Cameroonian writer Mongo Beti is clearly classified in the first category. It is a pillar of African literature. Released at the same time that L'Enfant Noir (1953), Camara Laye , that is to say, in the decade before independence, this novel describes him as the French presence in Africa ... but with a much more acerbic. The two writers also do not fail to display their disagreement on this point.

In The Poor Christ of Bomba , Mongo Beti enters the heart of the matter by taking care to follow a missionary tour in eastern Cameroon. Provencal governing an iron hand for twenty years, the Bomba, the Reverend Father Superior Drumont - everyone just calls "Father" - began to visit people the land of Tala; "the kingdom of Satan, the true Sodom and Gomorrah" , dixit Denis, the boy choir boy who accompanies and recounts in detail the events of this tour. It must be said that the PSR, to punish those believers pagan mores - with, in mind, polygamy - did not "honor" of his presence for three years ...

So here he is, which is flanked by Denis and his cook Zachariah, hit the road, bike, leaving time for a mission and "sixa" or living and working Christian women before marriage. The trio will go disappointment to disappointment, doubt SDN pounce soon before the little faith as evidenced by their "faithful". As for Denis, teenager fascinated by the aura of holiness that, in his view, emanates from the Father, he will discover the pleasures that it is wrong to confess ...

What strikes first in this novel and makes it so compelling is the strength of the main character. SDN is a true hero Drumont literary, colorful, but mostly in shades ... Mongo Beti also warns us early with some cynicism "In memory of Africa, there has never been a Reverend Father Superior Drumont and there probably never will be, least as far as I know my native Africa: it would be too good. "For , we discovered little by little, the RPS Drumont that sometimes makes blind faith, is nonetheless an ideal representation of Western humanism. Even when he uses the hard way, he thinks deeply for the good work. Harsh and naive, however, that he refuses to build a new road, enslaving the natives to their greatest misfortune helps bring them closer to God ...

Another key character in the novel, the cook, Zachariah, is midway between the angel and the bad conscience of the SDN. Christian unconvinced, incorrigible Rossard, it is enriched - and won - on the back of the RPS, while benefiting from its indulgence. The religious also seems to keep him for his outspokenness, Zechariah does not take tweezers to criticize the action of the RPS, which, pretending to ignore it, in fact shoots in many directions.

The tour ends in the SDN a bitter failure, beyond anything he could have imagined. And from the pen of Mongo Beti, the failure is more than that of evangelization - Today, SSA has 57% Christians - that of colonialism in breathless mix of false good intentions and enslavement, supposedly civilizing mission based on the infernal couple of carrots and sticks. The writer seems to presentiment same independence when he stages a PR shot, disillusioned, referring to his possible return to France after years spent trying to build something in Africa. Something which, unfortunately for him, the natives do not want and they pretend to accept, without adhering to very many of them, knowing that it will not last.

The Poor Christ of Bomba
of Mongo Beti
Laffont, 1956 reissue
Presence Africaine, 349 p., 8,90 euros

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Latest first quarter of 2010

the rate of one book per month, I propose that wants to learn about African literature (and Caribbean) contemporary take up in April 2011 ... (It is not my program blogger, just a suggestion reads). Here indeed is a selection of 12 titles published since 1 January 2010. There are sizes (Emmanuel Dongala), authors who rise (Wilfried N'Sondé) and a new guy (Jerome Nouhou).

Note that Gallimard is at the forefront, with five works published in his "dark continent", sometimes referred to as "ghetto" for African authors but here proves its dynamism. Followed closely by Actes Sud and The Plumed Serpent (three pounds each).


Antibody
Fabienne Kanor (Martinique)
Gallimard, 2010
168 p., 15,90 euros

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"There is nothing in my words, that can fit into your program, this plan end of life as you see fit to fix that over the years, patiently, almost stealthily, you scaffold at one end of t to draw. Where you imagine you go? How many points did you put age aside? " After forty years of marriage, Louise finally decides to disobey. The story of a bail conquered in defiance of good manners. The balance of funny and cruel a lifetime of suppressed rebellions, supported by a writing grip.


Corps Rebel Abigail Tansi
Chris Abani (Nigeria)
Albin Michel, 2010
160 p., 17 euros

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Haunted by the ghost of his dead mother in childbirth, Abigail, a teenager with a Nigerian strength of character unusual, is sent by his father in London with cousins. But far from finding peace, she soon plunges into a hell of loneliness. Qualified to mobilize the powers attached to the maternal spectrum to survive, it will have to pay a high price for its resistance ... At once lyrical and spare, forged with the rhythms and cadences of his native Chris Abani's prose sublime experience of human suffering into a deep meditation on loss, abandonment and loneliness. Beyond the tragedy Corps Rebel Abigail Tansi is a masterpiece poetry and sensuality.


The Devil devotee of
Libar Mr. Fofana (Guinea)
Gallimard, 2010
186 p., 16 euros

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inability to make a monetary pilgrimage to Mecca, the imam Galouwa fears being replaced by a young hadji who covets his place and privileges. An octogenarian offers him the price of a ticket in exchange for her daughter Hera, aged 13. Sell the flesh of his flesh to the devil to keep his religious function? This market horrible do not dive at all Galouwa in the throes of an impossible choice. The Devil devotee is a novel of rare insight and cruel, a true slice of life cut in the skin of a young girl for the greater glory of God, others say in a different religious faith. A heartbreaking sacrifice, driven by a passion to write crystalline move up in the square stone of Mecca.


Exiles
by Nuruddin Farah (Somalia)
The Plumed Serpent, 2010
384 p., 23 euros

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After twenty years of exile in New York, Jeebleh decided to return to Somalia, his country. On the agenda: finding the tomb of his mother and help his childhood friend to retrieve Bile Raasta, his daughter kidnapped. But when he arrived in Mogadishu, Jeebleh realizes that the situation has dramatically worsened. The clans have divided the country, young people are doing to target and trigger-happy Americans. Jeebleh the task is complex, especially as it is wary of him. Which clan is up today? In this chaotic world where nothing and no one is what it seems, where each word can be a bomb, small Raasta, called the Protected represents hope. His words, his presence is the only solace for the people of vultures ruled by fear.


The Iguifou
of Scholastica Mukasonga (Rwanda)
Gallimard, 2010
120 p., 13,50 euros

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The Iguifou is the belly insatiable hunger that grips the displaced Tutsi Nyamata prey to starvation and leads to doors Colomba light of death ... Nyamata but there is also fear that accompanies the children onto the school benches and that, far from Rwanda, still clings to the exile not as an evil shadow ... After the genocide, remains only the pursuit of impossible mourning, mourning and refused desired because it is among the dead it must draw the strength to survive. Writing Scholastica Mukasonga serene, full of poetry and humor revolves endlessly around the unspeakable, the star of black genocide.


Mr. Ki
Kwahulé Koffi (Côte d'Ivoire)
Gallimard, 2010
145 p., 16 euros

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"Still, I do not feel comfortable with the white racist with them I am confident, I know where I stand, I know where I step. (...) But I am wary of those who have a friend in Senegal or Cameroon, and Mr. I-I-know-much-the-blacks, Mr. I-I-spent ninety -years-in-Africa, who only listen to Miles Davis and Tiken Jah Fakoly, who swear by the spontaneity and natural elegance of the Negroes. (...) I do not doubt their sincerity, but fuck me uncomfortable, that's all. "Here's a novel fool who reveals more than wise, our world, the first, second, the thirtieth degree! ... Roman-rhapsody, Mr. Ki sings and enchants us to stroke against the grain of our time ...


Gold River
Nimrod (Chad)
Actes Sud, 2010
125 p., 13 euros

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countries like every year to visit his mother, Nimrod borrows the first light of dawn the streets of his neighborhood ocher of yesteryear. Beyond the years the old lady did not move, and his exiled son, literate traveler passing through this world of which it preserves the timeless reality, feeling suddenly becomes clear: "My mother invented this country. " From this subtle homage deploys Nimrod, in a succession of pictures, stories in which he re-enchanted the joys past and returns to the origins of his contemplative temperament, as if in childhood he was already receiving the inevitable departure therefore tried to preserve him as a refuge to the dimensions of the universe: poetry is the daughter of memory.


Group photo by the river
Emmanuel Dongala (Congo - Brazzaville)
Actes Sud, 2010
333 p., 22.80 EUR

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They are fifteen to break stone blocks in a career on an African river. They have learned that building an airport has significantly increased the price of gravel, and they decided together that the bag they give way to intermediate costs more. Despite lives marked by poverty, war, sexual violence and domestic oppression in the workplace and the family, "busting pebbles "discover the collective strength and find hope. By stripping his description of power relations in contemporary Africa devoid of any exotic group photo riverside part in the finest tradition of the novel social and humanist, humor and more.


The Thrill of the happiest days
Jerome Nouhou (Benin)
The Plumed Serpent, 2010
338 p., 19 euros

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Nelson is a sophomore right. He shares a two-room apartment with two other students: Jojo, fire, obsessed with girls and money, and Malcolm, who ruminates intellectual african dark thoughts: the Lebanese are the gangrene of the country, says he, they are greedy, racist, lawless. A Lebanese trader is attacked, beaten. The shop of another fire. A third is kidnapped, found dead. Malcolm Nelson suspects, while a clandestine group, the Black Chalice, claims the attacks against the Lebanese ... Here is part of this first novel posed abounding, with central question: Where does xenophobia? Text funny, cruel and ironic. A language worth the trip. A subtle and raw portrait of Benin today.


If the court of the sheep is dirty, it's not to say pork
Florent Couao -Zotti (Benin)
The Plumed Serpent, 2010
202 p., 16 euros

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One is a lady, beautiful and slender, found mutilated on the bank of Cotonou. Then there is another gallant and equally irresistible offer comes at a Lebanese businessman in exchange for money against a bag of cocaine. Finally there is a detective Private contacted by a third girl, who wants a buyer for the same angel dust ... But the nights in Cotonou have multiple flavors, whether from nasty ghosts, Amazons or people themselves. People who love justice and butcher knife to all those who in their neighborhoods are caught in the act of "mess night".


The Silence of the minds
Wilfried N'Sondé (France, Congo)
Actes Sud, 2010
170 p., 17 euros

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Terrorized by a police checkpoint on the banks of the Gare de Lyon, Clovis Nzila just hop on a commuter train. Undocumented, clandestine, it sits in a random car overheated and tries to control her fear. Facing him, a woman observes, in turn, accepts his prying eyes, do not seem frightened by his sad appearance. Careful, she strikes up a conversation, sees the despair of this young African ... Together they dive without restraint in a mirage, convinced reborn from the ashes of the past. After Heart Children leopard, a highly acclaimed first novel, Wilfriel N'Sondé us here the story of a meeting on how to ride a dark and light.


Darkness at noon
Theo Ananissoh (Togo)
Gallimard, 2010
138 p., 13.90 EUR

Presentation Editor: Eric
Bamezon , Adviser to the Presidency of the Republic invites the narrator, one evening at dinner. It is expected to meet with a man satisfied with his life and happy for its success; we discover, as advanced by the night, caught in a trap for obscure reasons ... Darkness at noon is a novel in which a piercing irony and lucidity rare is the story pure and uncompromising self-perception and its origins. Beyond a story set in Africa, is a question neither obsolete nor reserved for other than the author resumes here: how to behave like a man or woman of conscience in a time of widespread cruelty?