Un Bambino Nero by Camara Laye
A lyrical memoir of childhood in a West African village, following a boy who moves between the rhythms of family life, traditional craft and initiation rites, and the pull of formal schooling; vivid scenes of his father’s metalwork, village ceremonies and the natural landscape chart his awakening to identity, cultural values and the tensions between ancestral customs and the demands of modernization.
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- Published
- 1953
- Nationality
- Guinean
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 150-200
- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
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- L'Enfant noir
- The Dark Child
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