West Africa
Cote d'Ivoire
Contemporary
French
Fiction
A griot narrates the fictional dictator Koyaga's rise from village hunter to president-for-life in a thinly veiled West African republic, weaving real atrocities of the independence era into satirical mythology.
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Kourouma is the most internationally celebrated Ivorian writer; this won the Prix du Livre Inter
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editorial-summarynot primary textA griot narrates the fictional dictator Koyaga's rise from village hunter to president-for-life in a thinly veiled West African republic, weaving real atrocities of the independence era into satirical mythology. Kourouma is the most internationally celebrated Ivorian writer; this won the Prix du Livre Inter
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