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Descriptionhe author was born on the Ivory Coast, leaving to serve in the French colonial army in Indo China, and to study in France. He returned home, left, and finally returned for good in 1993. Promotion infoA magical, blackly funny tapestry of a book, which, through the rise and fall of its central character, the dictator of a small imaginary former French African colony, tells the story, bitter, painful and beautiful, of modern Africa. Author descriptionAhmadou Kourouma was born in the Ivory Coast in 1927. He fought in the French army in Indochina and studied in France. After independence, he spent many years in exile before returning to the Ivory Coast in 1993. He is regarded as one of the leading African writers in French. |