Waiting For The Vote Of The Wild Animals by Ahmadou Kourouma
A fierce, darkly comic allegory that recounts the rise and ruin of a postcolonial African strongman through a voice rooted in oral storytelling, blending myth, grotesque imagery and raw reportage to expose the absurdity and brutality of tyranny; the narrative skewers corrupt politics, manipulated elections and neocolonial interference while using vivid animal and ritual motifs to underscore the human cost and moral urgency of power gone mad.
- Published
- 1998
- Nationality
- Ivorian
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
- - En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages
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