Tag: intégral
[En intégral] Dieudonné Niangouna (Democratic Republic of Congo): “Ghost”
Three brothers and sisters, accompanied by their nephew, meet to sell the house of a father they never knew. But an old man, come to shelter from the rain, will…
[En intégral] Laura Sheïlla Inangoma (Burundi): “Memory trial”
A trial. Three women are accused of murder and practicing “barbaric rites” but for lack of bodies, judges, lawyers and witnesses are fighting over what makes tradition and modernity in…
[En intégral] Koulsy Lamko (Chad): “That of the islands”
“Celile” or “Celle des îles”, a storyteller and cabaret singer responds to a funny casting to brighten up the evenings of “well-thinking and well-sleeping customers” at the restaurant “Le petit…
[En intégral] Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (Senegal): “Enclosed Land”
Written in 2015 by the man who will become the first writer from sub-Saharan Africa to win the Goncourt Prize, this novel takes place in Kalep, a town in Sumal…
[En intégral] Nathalie Hounvo Yekpe (Benin): “Race to the wedding”
It is the story of three sisters with linked destinies but only one of them succeeded. Madila is married to a rich man. Her children go to French school. Everything…
[En intégral] Jean D’Amérique (Haiti): “Opera Dust”
Forgotten by history, Sanite Bélair (1781-1802) returns from the dead to haunt us. A sergeant, then a lieutenant in the Haitian revolutionary army, she was captured by French settlers and…