2 / Novels written by African authors not
Patrick Besson
But the river will kill the white man
Fayard - Paris - 2009
496 p. - 15.3 x 23.5 cm - ISBN: 9782213629667
board the plane from Paris to Brazzaville, Christopher, an executive in a major oil company recognizes a passenger: Blandine Kergalec, the officer who left the service DGSE Action two decades earlier after a scandal. Passionate espionage, Christopher follows in the Congolese capital. He surprises his meeting in a dance hall on the banks of the river, with a Rwandan soldier. The young man is then involved in a brutal settling of accounts, multi-faceted. By a set of disturbing flashbacks and alternating points of view, the author trap the reader in a labyrinth that will not close Doublier. Patrick Besson offers a fascinating picture of Africa subsalharienne, intense romantic space, where each considers the other as an inexhaustible source of legends, mysteries, occult powers. Detailed description and feverish from the urban jungle of Equatorial political thriller, romance and anger. But the river will kill the white man is as the best work of an accomplished author who, since his first book from 1971, when he was seventeen years, has ceased to be amazed by his works, his columns and commitments.
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Equatoria
Threshold - Paris - 2009
14 x 20, 5 cm - ISBN: 9782020906807
Here's how, after months of erratic travels, after sailing on the river Ogooué, strolled in Angola and Sao Tome e Principe, crossed the plate Batékés, I found myself, October 3, 2006, in Brazzaville over the coffin of Brazza, a brand new coffin made by EGPFC-Wilaya of Algiers with President of Gabon Omar Bongo, President of the Republic of Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso, the president of the Central African Republic Francois Bozize, the following proactive citizens Douste-Blazy and Kouchner, the Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Andrés Carrascosa Coso and the king of the Teke Nguempio Augustus. In makeshift accommodation in hotels, I recorded the lives of contemporary de Brazza, those of David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley, but also those of Albert Schweitzer and Jonas Savimbi. In Kigoma on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, I looked for traces of the Congolese war of Che Guevara. To write the lives of Emin Pasha and Tippu Tip, I went to Zanzibar.
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Irene FRAIN Michel Lafon - Paris - 2009 320
p. - 15.3 x 23.5 cm - ISBN: 9782749909905
In 1761 a French ship ran aground lost on an island in the Indian Ocean. It carries one hundred and sixty slaves. To survive, the survivors must live black and white. An officer wants to build a boat. The sailors refuse to help. The slaves accept. Dignity demands respect of whites. But at the time of departure, we do not embark. Fifteen years later, when the sound of this package ran all ports, we go back and get them. There are only seven women and a child. From the maritime archives, archaeological excavations and a stay on the island, this chapter tells Irene Frain disregarded the rights of man, which led to the consciences of the abolition of slavery.
Notice of Soumbala : An exciting tale of historical facts directly from denouncing the injustices of the time while reproducing them in part, how can we not see that much of the narrative is devoted to whites while most incredible performance (survival of 7 women will be collected only after 15 years) is the fact that Malagasy slaves were part of the cargo ... .. In defense of the author it is certain that the survivors Western have left more written evidence of their adventure that kidnapping the natives in the Big Island.
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