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L'Aventure ambiguë (French original)

Cheikh Hamidou Kane
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Region

West Africa

Senegal

Era

Post-colonial

Language

French

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Fiction

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The original French edition of Ambiguous Adventure, Kane's meditation on the collision between Islamic Toucouleur culture and French colonial education. Published as a single unified text.

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One of the great works of francophone African literature; explores the tragic cost of colonial education for the colonized

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The original French edition of Ambiguous Adventure, Kane's meditation on the collision between Islamic Toucouleur culture and French colonial education. Published as a single unified text. One of the great works of francophone African literature; explores the tragic cost of colonial education for the colonized

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