The Suns of Independence

Name: The Suns of Independence
Author: Ahmadou Kourouma

by Ahmadou Kourouma

Novel of independence and postcolonial disillusionment in West African nation

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Ahmadou Kourouma

Ivorian novelist who revolutionized French-language African fiction by embedding Mande oral rhetoric into French prose. The Suns of Independence is his masterwork, a dark comedy of postcolonial disillusionment.

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