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Product Description: Set in a fictitious African nation, this novel by the distinguished writer Sony Labou Tansi takes aim at the corruption, degeneracy, violence, and repression of political life in Africa. At the heart of The Shameful State is the story of Colonel Martillimi Lopez, the nationâs president, whose eccentricity and whims epitomize the "shameful situation in which humanity has elected to live...read more
Paperback:
9780253019257 | Indiana Univ Pr, January 3, 2016, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Set in a fictitious African nation, this novel by the distinguished writer Sony Labou Tansi takes aim at the corruption, degeneracy, violence, and repression of political life in Africa.
Product Description: In this sumptuously printed, large-format publication, distinguished Magnum photographers Paolo Pellegrin (born 1964) and Alex Majoli (born 1971) present a collaborative document of the Congo and its people. Bringing together the best of each photographer's personal styles as well as experimental forays into abstraction and collage, this volume captures what Alain Mabanckou describes as a full range of the landscape, "from urban scenes to great forests and back, reflecting the way it is in most African societies today...read more
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9781597113250 | Har/bklt b edition (Aperture, May 26, 2015), cover price $300.00 | About this edition: In this sumptuously printed, large-format publication, distinguished Magnum photographers Paolo Pellegrin (born 1964) and Alex Majoli (born 1971) present a collaborative document of the Congo and its people.
Paperback:
9781593766016 | Soft Skull Pr, December 16, 2014, cover price $14.95
Product Description: All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. Some doubles are benign, others wicked. This legend comes to life in Alain Mabanckouâs outlandish, surreal, and charmingly nonchalant Memoirs of a Porcupine.When Kibandi, a boy living in a Congolese village, reaches the age of 11, his father takes him out into the night and forces him to drink a vile liquid from a jar that has been hidden for years in the earth...read more
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9781593764364 | Soft Skull Pr, April 17, 2012, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double.
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9780300118261, titled "Francophone Sub-Saharan African Literature in Global Contexts: Francophone Sub-saharan African Literature in Global Contexts" | Yale Univ Pr, January 31, 2012, cover price $30.00
Product Description: Alain Mabanckouâs riotous new novel centers on the patrons of a run-down bar in the Congo. In a country that appears to have forgotten the importance of remembering, a former schoolteacher and bar regular nicknamed Broken Glass has been elected to record their stories for posterity...read more
Paperback:
9781593762735 | Soft Skull Pr, June 1, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Alain Mabanckouâs riotous new novel centers on the patrons of a run-down bar in the Congo.
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