Le revenant

by Aminata Sow Fall

Bakar sort du chômage pour devenir la vedette adulée des baptêmes, mariages et autres cérémonies de quartier où il sème les "billets bleus". Ce circuit le conduit inévitablement en prison et il est maintenant Bakar-la-honte que ne chanteront plus les griots.
Un Sénégal d'aujourd'hui où nous promène la plume alerte et souple de Aminata Sow, l'universitaire dont le regard n'a pas dévié des réalités de son peuple.

Genres: Africa, Senegal, African Literature

125 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1976

About the author

Aminata Sow Fall (born 1941) is a Senegalese-born author. While her native language is Wolof, her books are written in French.

She was born 1941 in Saint-Louis, Senegal, where she grew up before moving to Dakar to finish her secondary schooling. After this, she did a degree in Modern Languages in France and became a teacher upon returning to Senegal. She was a member of the Commission for Educational Reform responsible for the introduction of African literature into the French syllabus in Senegal, before becoming director of La Propriété littéraire (The Literary Property) in Dakar (1979-88). She was appointed the first woman president of Senegal's Writer's Association in 1985. In 1990 she founded the publishing house Éditions Khoudia.

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Reviews

[Wim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Roman remarquable sur la pression sociale, l'hypocrisie et la corruption, mais aussi sur l'amitié et l'amour.