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Waiting For The Wild Beasts To Vote

Waiting For The Wild Beasts To Vote

by Ahmadou Kourouma

A magical, blackly funny tapestry of a book, which, through the rise and fall of its central character ...

Allah Is Not Obliged

Allah Is Not Obliged

by Ahmadou Kourouma

An extraordinarily powerful and affecting novel of Africa's child-soldiers, by French Africa's pre-eminent ...

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Ahmadou Kourouma

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Ahmadou Kourouma

Ahmadou Kourouma was born in the Ivory Coast in 1927. Hailed as one of the leading African writers in French, he died in 2003.


Books by Ahmadou Kourouma

Books: 2
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Waiting For The Wild Beasts To Vote

Waiting For The Wild Beasts To Vote

by Ahmadou Kourouma

A 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 ...

Allah Is Not Obliged

Allah Is Not Obliged

by Ahmadou Kourouma

An extraordinarily powerful and affecting novel of Africa's child-soldiers, by French Africa's pre-eminent novelist. In the tradition of City of God

Books: 2
  • 1