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"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."
The Guardian of the Word: Kouma Lafolo Kouma
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The Guardian of the Word: Kouma Lafolo Kouma
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Camara Laye (1928-1980) was born in Kouroussa, a large village on the river Niger in the French West African colony of Upper Guinea. The eldest of seven children, Camara spent his formative years in Koranic and French elementary schools before winning a scholarship to study automobile engineering in Argenteuil, outside Paris. In the late 1950s Camara Laye returned to Africa, where he worked in a variety of official capacities for the government of newly independent Guinea, only to be driven into exile because of his political outspokenness. The Guardian of the Word, a rendering into French of the great Malian epic Soundiata, is his final work before he succumbed to illness.
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I finished this last night. It is quite an epic work, following a royal family struggle through several generations of adventure and peril. I found it heavy going sometimes, as I prefer the personal over the epic, but I enjoyed the insights into what was admired and valued by the culture.I'm part-way through another book that Hendertuckian wants, so I'll hold this one and send them together. I'll be counting this as my author from Guinea for the Olympic Challenge. Sent to hendertuckian on 1/17/2008 |
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