Overview
Region
West Africa
Côte d'Ivoire
Era
Post-colonial
Language
French
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
Former Malinke king Fama is stripped of his power and dignity after independence, wandering through a post-colonial Africa that has betrayed its people. Kourouma revolutionized French prose with African syntax.
Literary Significance
Revolutionary formal experiment — bending French prose to Malinke syntax; one of the most important francophone African novels