"As eye-catching as graffiti, but lacking the emotional power of Uzodinma Iweala's Beasts of No Nation (2006)."
This fourth and final novel by the acclaimed Ivoirian (1927-2003), published in France in 2000, combines an invented child-soldier's story with that of a gallery of real warlords.
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Ivory Coast-born Kourouma (The Suns of Independence, 1982) brilliantly indicts both colonial and independent Africa for their monnew—insults, outrages, humiliations.
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