Ambiguous Adventure

Name: Ambiguous Adventure
Author: Cheikh Hamidou Kane

Philosophical novel about a Muslim West African boy navigating conflict between Islamic tradition and French colonial education

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Cheikh Hamidou Kane

Senegalese philosopher-novelist whose Ambiguous Adventure is one of the great novels of Africa, exploring the spiritual and cultural disorientation of a young Senegalese man caught between Islamic tradition and French education.

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