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Alain mabanckou, prolific francophone congolese poet and novelist whose wordplay, philosophical bent, and sometimes sly and often absurd sense of humour resulted in his being known in france as the african samuel beckett. Alain mabanckou simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mar 12, 2020 starting as a tender, wry portrait of an ordinary congolese family, alain mabanckou quickly expands the scope of his story into a powerful examination of colonialism, decolonization and dead ends of the african continent. Pdf paris, ville postcoloniale dans bleublancrouge d. Blue white red, 20, mabanckous novels have engaged with a broad range of themes, including childhood, civil conflict, child soldiers, memory, postcolonial history, folktales, travel, displacement, and racism, on each.
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