Friday, November 26, 2010

The Difference Between A Chi And A Chi Turbo

Africa meeting in Paris from November 25

When there was one time in meetings that are held in Albarino Passy, organized Paris by Africa and the maestro Gangoueus, we want to take a subscription for the whole year. Alas, do not benefit just anyone! The lucky ones are those who inhabit the region. Even if they take place on a Thursday, we catch the subway and you're there. And we provincials then? How to be there at 19h after a day's work and possible child care issues to resolve? You can not win, can you tell me.

But when there is a ivity as prestigious as Sami Chak, what are you doing? You say, too bad, even if I get well beyond the time of appointment, it would be a shame not take this opportunity to meet the author of Girls of Mexico . I wanted to somehow verify his identity. The identity of an author is read, not on his identity card, or through reference to its origins, but is defined in his novels, in his texts. Show me what you write, I'll tell you who you are.

Sami Tchak showed me in his novels the image of a man deeply human, which builds bridges like nets in the ocean of humanity to catch the friendship of other . A man sensitive. A humble man, too. You want to meet him. And man is one with his lyrics.




soon as he saw me, he gave me a hand signal, and has not even bothered to come to meet me. I was pleased to learn that my columns were read and appreciated. The discussion quickly slipped on reading and writing. Of the books that have fueled our sensitivity. Of the works that we find so beautiful that they lead us to consider our own productions as well irrelevant. I loved the tribute goes to Sami Tchak Ananda Devi in Hermina , he mentioned that Celine's Shakespeare.

Finally I have had before me the author of Hermina , which is to say Heberto, the hero of this novel, that whenever he read good books, his desire to become writer of ten pounds thinner. Finally, it is not the exact quote, but that's about it. It is a feeling against which we can not defend themselves: the more you read, the more we said, what can we say? Or well I could say the man, telling the life, tell the world as well as the author or the author will then? Would not it be better to shut up and listen to others?

Myriam Tadesse, Martha Fare and Liss.

Well it was crowded yesterday with Albarino. There were mostly women who intend to mark the territory the literature. Women that will sharpen their pencils for the pictures they present in their works hold your attention. Martha Fare For example: when she wonders what is going Togolese literature written in the feminine. You can read it here:
And I wonder when is it that publishers will jump on it so that diffuses into the force Letters Togolese women as expected. Myriam Tadesse
published The moment a look L'Harmattan and staged a new Sami Chak.

Sami Tchak accepting its risks and perils, to let coach by Liss and Martha Fare. If in the future, you find that his talent has diminished, look no further, it has been the subject of a mystical transmission.


Evening Fun. She continued with a dinner, but I, I had to queue, waiting for my chicks a few meters. Yes, I know I am a bad mother, and drag them to Paris! I can still hear their protest. "But, Mom, we did not even homework!" "Well, we'll have them in the car, or you do tomorrow morning daycare. Go on the way, we go to Paris! Must arrive before 21h, me! "Statement under the reproachful gaze ... but Daddy's collaborator.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Ringworm In Hand Isnt Healing

For the love of Mukala, Teresa Zossou ESSEM

I have not simmered dish these days, so I go out of my fridge ( my freezer I should say) that I warmed dish especially for you, especially because the novel in question said Africa and Africans in a way encouraging.


For the love of Mukala novel by Theresa Zossou ESSEM is a short story that reads like listening to a grandfather tell us a fairy tale. Yal'intervention wonderful because of facts that are beyond reason, things that are mystical as the men with a double and dying animal when it is killed. This belief, widespread in Africa, is the subject of the novel Memoirs of Porcupine Alain Mabanckou. Wonderful too because it feels that despite the incidents, despite the terrible hardships which the two main characters, Daniel and Yvonne also called Dika Mukala, face, in this novel as in the tales, all's well that ends well.

This novel reads as if it was also the preferred ear of a friend who confided in us, we shared his memories, his hopes, his view of life and Africa.

Ode to life

's novel Therese Zossou ESSEM is indeed like a hymn to life, a call to always fight to give him the upper hand. We need to make life beautiful, to fight for it. We see progress during the three quarters of the book, the relationship between the two main characters, who inhabit the same residence hall, that of Antony in the Paris region. Gradually they come together, fall in love. But things are not so simple. Each has experienced the worst of events: the disappearance of a loved one. What makes Daniel questions the meaning of his life, wonders why have ambitions and efforts, as his sister, who was his accomplice, the exits. As for Yvonne, she lost the father of her child in tragic circumstances, she does not deliver his heart easily. But they end up opening to one another and unite their lives. Then follow moments of bliss. But the climb to the summit of happiness is abruptly interrupted, they are faced with adversity: health problem leading to loss of sight for Yvonne and especially loss of the little girl who was born of their union. This dark period of their life is condensed into only two chapters, as if to show how evil tightens the noose around their neck to strangle them. But the two young people bouncing, they decided to get out. And the end of the book is like a return to the initial happiness.

Another image of the African

Theresa Zossou ESSEM wants to give another image of the African residents in Europe, if not in France. Today it is rather seen as a profiteer, like the one recently requisition allowances and hearts, love abusing a naive white or white to get papers. In the novel Hearts Paper Christian Mambou was also this will give a different image of Africa. For the love of Mukala gives an example of young Africans who do not take advantage of opportunities that may present themselves to them. They decide to return home, graduation, because everything is there to build. Despite the poor working conditions, lack of equipment, the two heroes put their acquired knowledge in Europe at the service of their country. The book was certainly written in the 80s, and expresses the dream of all Africans in their continent: that it can be built through his children. Now what we notice today is the increasing brain drain, because of existing political regimes, which do nothing or do not create the conditions for a homecoming of''brain'' the country.

Africa values

The author also wants to show in his book that Africa, even if it did not want this development that the Western countries, however, has a rich corporation that makes it so unusual, and that it may lose if not careful. If Daniel and Mukala fare, mostly because they are supported by family, by friends. They are not alone in their misery. This novel gives importance to the family, human relations. The entourage, whether family, friends, neighbors or acquaintances, is a bulwark against depression. While Africa suffers from underdevelopment, in Europe it often suffers from loneliness, there was sometimes no one to turn to. The elderly, even with children who work and housing, are found in homes, men and women are homeless (homeless) even though they have brothers and sisters or even parents who could accommodate them while waiting to find a stable situation; youth suicide because they can not bear the weight of their suffering when they could share them with others ... This is not to say that Africa does not know these tragedies, but the impact is less important because it is surrounded.

But some young Africans, especially those who grew up or lived in Europe, sees the family of another eye, it becomes a burden, because it takes care of all these people. Teresa Z. ESSEM wants to put things in context and show that we can do it without feeling like breaking the bank. It also highlights some know-how Africans, in the case of health for example. There are cases of disease or the science of White fails. This happens when Mukala loses his sight, but the wisdom of the ancients, the mobilization of the family, to be due to his disability.

short, For the love of Mukala means another Africa, and rightly, that this novel was published in the collection "Writing Africa" L Publishing Harmattan.

The Author: Therese Zossou ESSEM was born in 1952 in Mbanga, Cameroon. She is a professor of German at the EFE Montaigne Cotonou.
For the love of Mukala , L'Harmattan, 2007, 130 pages.


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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Is Kates Playground Good?

I wanted to be a journalist

"I wanted to be journaliiiiste! Order to make my numéroooo!"
Yes, I know, this is an "artist" they said in the song ... of that already? It has been interpreted so that I wonder who is the composer.

A writer friend and journalist, Mambou Christian, once told me: "You, you used to write tickets. Me, shooting, editing the video, it knows me . Why would we not our talents together? Why not spend the audiovisual text? "I strained my eyes
:
" - You mean ... a program? How can this be done? And then to chronicle a book is one thing, the show on TV is another thing, are you sure I'm the right person?
- Oh, for the choice of the person, I am not worry, you're the right person, trust me. The problem is mainly to lead the project to find a buyer. But should already begin to transform the idea into something concrete. So things are a novel and an essay. "

It was summer 2008. He looked confident, so I thought why not? This is an opportunity to a new experience, to see if I can slip into the shoes of a journalist. At the time I was in full discovery of the work of Tchicaya Tam'si U, so it's him that I have spoken more precisely the novel These sweet fruits of the breadfruit .

And here's what it gave.



Saturday, November 13, 2010

Remington 3200 Review

Small Bodiel and other tales from the savannah, Amadou Ba Hampâté

Known primarily as the author of the novel The Curious Fate of Wangrin , became a literary classic black African Amadou Ba Hampâté (1900-1991) " was a leading African intellectuals to collect and record and explain the wealth of oral literature, traditional West African . The charm of the tales is no doubt that there's something for everyone: children, always hungry for stories where the righteous will be rewarded and the wicked punished, do not get tired, and adults, given their life experience, are best placed to appreciate the moral of the story. Entertain, educate, inspire reflection, storytelling, described by Hampâté Ba as " message yesterday for tomorrow, today passed through " perform all these functions, hence its timelessness.



In Small Bodiel and other tales from the savannah , you will find a score of tales, mainly from Bambara or Fulani heritage. The first, entitled "Small Bodiel" is the longest and, of course, the richest adventures. It's also one that illustrates the most striking is that the setbacks of life and the need to act wisely and not according to our desires often excessive or simply selfish.

Bodiel Little is a young hare lazy, "Bodiel" actually means "hare" in Fulani. All he knows or likes to do is "yawn, sleep, wake up, eat, digest, pissing and farting, "and also" watch spurs firm breasts and rounded bathers. "(pages 13 and 15). Bodiel When Dad died, Mom Bodiel must fend for their livelihood. Exasperated by the ; laziness of his son, calling her an ultimatum: he manages to help, to save himself SAVIE, otherwise she flings his house and denies same.

Small Bodiel has understood the message he wants to please his mother, a pleasant surprise. But how? He can not rely on his strength, he knows he has none, then He decides to go Allawalam, that is to say, God, to receive his share as much cunning as necessary to overcome all difficulties cheerfully life. This is the beginning of the adventures for Petit Bodiel the beginning of a long climb, too, until he was taken by delusions of grandeur.

That the main characters are animals or humans, all of us to reflect on human nature, we warn against appearances. Among the themes, the couple occupies an important place. You know, for example by reading this book " why the good man is often the husband a woman without merit and brave woman married to a bum "(p. 131)

And this inspires you?

" For the Man, woman is a bottomless pit ... For the woman, the man is a barrel that is lost in the clouds ... They can never reach the limit of one another. They are like two puzzles that look, talk and complement each other, without ceasing to challenge. They can not live without each other but can not live together smoothly or splinters. With the woman does not work, but without the woman, everything would be screwed! " (p. 15)

This Bodiel Petit is a real little treat, he will delight young and old. Thank you to Kinzy for suggesting this reading.

Hampâté Amadou Ba Small Bodiel and other tales from the savannah , Editions Stock, 1994, 220 pages.
1993 for New Editions Ivorian. The tale "Little Bodiel" was first published in 1977 in New Editions African Abidjan.