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أبى جيغري كيتا ملك سوبا، أن يطيع ساموري إمبراطور بلاد الماندينغ كلها، فلم يهدم مدينته مع وصول جحافل الجيوش الاستعمارية، معتقدا أن سحر الأسلاف وحماية الله والسور الذي أقيم على عجل تكفي لدحر \"النصارى\" فتمكن هؤلاء من الاستيلاء على سوبا دون قتال. بينما كان السحرة المنشدون يتغنون بمجد جيغوي كيتا وسنوات ملكه المئة والعشرين، كان الملك المخلوع يغوص في تعاون مع المحتل يزداد فتكا باطراد. في غمرة الملحمة المأساوية المفجعة لشعب أسلم للاستعمار تبرز مهزلة الدول الأفريقية الحديثة المستسلمة لشياطينها، ويتجلى أيضا قرار اتهام مدهش وعنيف ضد هذه الأعراف والتقاليد التي تؤدي أحيانا إلى أسوأ التواطؤات. هذه الرواية الملحمية بأسلوبها الأسطوري تفضح الممارسات الاستعمارية التي عانت منها القارة الإفريقية، داخل نسيج روائي ساحر يعيد إلى ذاكرتنا الفضاء السحري والعجائبي للرواية الأميركية اللاتينية.
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Ahmadou Kourouma
AK: It's really a satire on dictatorships, and my particular dictator is, let's say, somewhat like President Eyedéma of Togo. When he's asked if he might lose a certain election, he replies there is no possibility whatsoever because, even if he did lose, by magic he'd call all the wild animals out of the bush too, and all of them would vote for him unanimously. So, no problem, even if the human beings dare to let him down! He even has no danger from a coup d'état, because he has forbidden such a thing! And then it turns out of course he gets a 120% vote...all his countrymen, plus others who couldn't resist coming in from outside! AK: Before it was, very seriously, but recently, not at all. Within Côte d'Ivoire with our coup d'état a few weeks ago, now we writers are the ones who do the speaking. We're completely free to criticize, and also to entertain. AK: Ah yes, especially since now I am retired as a practicing lawyer. And I do my exercises, you know: every day at home I swim, so many lengths in the pool. And here, because we're facing the sea from this hotel, I do my jogging along the beach -- you've seen me, I'm sure. I intend now to increase my output, at last.
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حوارات لقرن جديد : الأدب بين التخيل الذاتي والتخيل التاريخي
يضم الكتاب حوارات مع ثمانية روائيين عالميين، من أجيال وعوالم مختلفة، لكنهم يلتقون في أنهم تفاعلوا مع لحظتهم وكتبوا لها وعنها، بل إن بعضهم كابد من أجل ذلك مكابدات كادت أن تودي بحقه في الحياة أصلا، بالنظر إلى خوضه فيما يعتبره قانون بلاده خطا أحمر. هؤلاء الروائيون هم : التركي أورهان باموك واللبناني أمين معلوف والكولومبي غابرييل غارسيا ماركيز والكورسيكي فيراري جيروم والإيطالي أمبرتو إيكو والصيني داي سيجي والإيفواري أحمدوف كوروما والبيروفي ماريو فارغاس يوسا.
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ALT 27 New Novels in African Literature Today
This is a seminal work that discusses the validity of the perception that the new generation of African novelists is remarkably different in vision, style, and worldview from the older generation. The contention is that the older generation novelists who were too close to the colonial period in Africa had invariably made culture-conflict and little else their dominant thematic concern while the younger generation novelists are more versatile in their thematic preoccupations, and are more global in their vision and style. Do the facts in the novels justify and validate these claims? The 13 papers in this volume have been carefully selected to consider these issues. Brenda Cooper a renowned literary scholar from Cape Town writes on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, while Charles Nnolim writes about Adichie's more recent novel Half of a Yellow Sun; Omar Sougou of Universite Gaston Berger, Senegal discusses 'ambivalent inscriptions' in Buchi Emecheta's later novels; Clement Okafor of the University of Maryland, addresses the theme of 'racial memory' in Isidore Okpewho's Call Me By My Rightful Name, juxtaposed between the world of the old and the realities of the present. Joseph McLaren, Hofstra University, New York, discusses Ngugi's latest novel, Wizard of the Crow, while Machiko Oike, Hiroshima University, Japan looks at a new theme in African adolescent literature, 'youth in an era of HIV/AIDS'. There is abundant evidence of the contrasts and diversities which characterize the African novel not only geographically, but also ideologically and generationally. ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of the Department of Africana Studies University of Michigan-Flint. Nigeria: HEBN
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An Interview with Ahmadou Kourouma: (November 24, 1997)
An interview with fiction writer Ahmadou Kourouma is presented. Kourouma argues that for him fiction is not something one writes for its own sake; in order to write, he has to have a compelling motivation, such as the imprisonment of his friends.
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