Comme un exutoire, ce mémoire des aurores représente la renaissance de l’auteur. Ce dernier y illustre tous les obstacles majeurs qui ont jonché son existence jusqu’à présent, en démontrant les moyens employés pour les surmonter. À l’exemple d’un feu polysémique, l’ouvrage nous montre les moments d’épreuves qui ont façonné la personnalité d’Emmanuel Mabondo, l’aidant ainsi à sortir de sa zone de confort pour accomplir ses objectifs. Dans la quête d’une flamme rédemptrice, il effectue un parallèle entre son histoire et celle de son pays, plus précisément celle de son peuple. À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR !--StartFragment--Participer au développement de son continent et de son pays, telle est l’ambition que porte Emmanuel Mabondo quand il prend la plume. Il croit fermement que l’échange des idées, suivi d’actions concrètes, est primordial pour l’émancipation des siens. C’est d’ailleurs dans cet ordre d'idées qu’il écrit TiYa, son premier ouvrage.!--EndFragment--
The whole of African history unfolds in this brilliant novel from one of the continent’s major writers. The story is unified by the actions of one man, Mankunku, a “destroyer,” who is born in mysterious circumstances in a banana plantation and whose identity is as variable as that of his land. This novel traces his development along with that of his unnamed country, from the precolonial era, through the horrors of European subjugation, to independence and the complexities of the postcolonial nation. Along the way, charlatans and saints, workers and bureaucrats, warriors and peacemakers are introduced in a moving m+lange of laughter and terror. First published in France in 1987, The Fire of Origins received the 1988 Prix de la Fondation de France and the Grand Prix Litteraire d’Afrique Noire, and has been translated into Spanish, Danish, Norwegian, and Japanese. Mythical, lyrical, powerful, and surreal, it is one of the most ambitious works of fiction to come out of sub-Saharan Africa. This replaces 155652420X.
Life During Wartime, As Seen Through the Eyes of Two Congolese Teenagers Set amid the chaos of West Africa's civil wars, Emmanuel Dongala's striking novel tells the story of two teenagers growing up while rival ethnic groups fight for control of their country. At age sixteen, Johnny is a member of the Death Dealers, a rebel faction bent on seizing power. Even as he is drawn into the rebels' program of terror, Johnny Mad Dog, as he calls himself, retains his youthful exuberance--searching for girls, good times, and adventure. Sixteen-year-old Laokolé, for her part, dreams of finishing high school and becoming an engineer, but as rogue militias prepare to sack the city, she is forced to leave home with her mother and brother--and then finds herself alone and running from the likes of Johnny. Acclaimed in France, Johnny Mad Dog is a coming-of-age story like no other; Dongala's masterful use of dual narrators makes the novel an unusually vivid and affecting tale of the struggle to survive--and to retain one's humanity--in terrifying times.
The peculiar and moving story of a Congolese boy's coming-of-age amid the political strife of postcolonial Congo His nickname is Matapari, which means "trouble." He is an African child of the '90s--brilliant, mischievous, postcolonial, postmodern-caught in the crossfire of a chaotically liberated African country. Matapari grows up in a world of talking drums, the Internet, and satellite TV, a world of dictators who remake themselves as democrats overnight. His uncle is a stooge for the dictator; his father is a scholarly recluse obsessed with proving that blacks played key roles in Western history. Matapari is a young man in the middle--but the shrewdness and wit with which he tells his often riotously funny story set him apart from his relatives and countrymen. Emmanuel Dongala uses the ingenious viewpoint of a child to show up the telltale world of adults--and to show how one preserves one's independence in a corrupt and violent society.
This book contains testimonies of the great and wonderful acts of our lords Jesus Christ. From the beginning to the end you will experience goose bumps and the hair at the back of your head, shoulder and arm rising up.
Joli coup pour Carmin. Le fleuron minier français signe un partenariat historique avec la Chine afin d’exploiter un exceptionnel gisement de cuivre au Congo. Annoncé en grande pompe par les gouvernements respectifs, soutenu par les banquiers d’affaires, le projet Kisanga doit être inauguré dans trois mois. Un délai bien trop court pour Olivier Martel, l’ingénieur dépêché sur place pour le piloter, mais en principe suffisant pour les barbouzes chargées de retrouver un dossier secret susceptible de faire capoter toute l’opération s’il tombait entre de mauvaises mains. Celles de Raphaël Da Costa par exemple, un journaliste qui s’est déjà frotté par le passé à Carmin et aux zones grises du pouvoir. Trois mois, le temps d’une course-poursuite haletante au coeur de la savane katangaise et sur les pistes brûlantes du Kivu, pour découvrir ce que dissimule le nom si prometteur de Kisanga. Du suspense, du rythme et un réalisme redoutable irriguent ce thriller implacable sur les nouveaux jeux d’influence en Afrique.
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