Ahmadou Kourouma Quotes
The ultimate affront, that neither hurries, grows weary nor forgets, is called death.
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Birth: | 24th November, 1927 |
Death: | 11th December, 2003 |
Nationality: | Ivorian |
Profession: | Novelist |
Ahmadou Kourouma was an Ivorian novelist. Ahmadou Kourouma was born in 1927 in Côte d'Ivoire. Raised by his uncle, he initially pursued studies in Bamako, Mali. His first novel, Les soleils des indépendances contains a critical treatment of post-colonial governments in Africa. Twenty years later, his second book Monnè, outrages et défis, a history of a century of colonialism, was published. In 1998, he published En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages, a satire of post colonial Africa in the style of Voltaire in which a griot recounts the story of a tribal hunter's transformation into a dictator, inspired by president Gnassingbé Eyadéma of Togo.
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