Allah N'est Pas Oblige

Name: Allah N'est Pas Oblige
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ISBN: 9780307279576

ISBN-10: 030727957X

ISBN-13: 9780307279576

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ahmadou Kourouma, Frank Wynne

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A powerful and affecting novel of Africa’s child-soldiers, by French Africa’s pre-eminent novelist. Birahima is ten years old. He lives in the Ivory Coast. He is a soldier. In Ahmadou Kourouma’s extraordinary novel, Birahima tells his story. At the age of ten his mother dies and Birahima leaves his native village, accompanied by the sorcerer/crook Yacouba, to search for his aunt Mahan. Crossing the border into Liberia, they are seized by a rebel force and press-ganged into military service. Birahima is given a Kalashnikov, minimal rations of food, a small supply of dope and a tiny wage. Fighting in a totally chaotic civil war, and alongside many other boys, some no older than himself,…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/8/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Ahmadou Kourouma was born in the Ivory Coast in 1927. Hailed as one of the leading African writers in French, he died in 2003.