AHMADOU KOUROUMA

Ahmadou Kourouma (1927 – 2003) was a remarkable, award-winning Ivorian novelist. As a young man when his country was still under French colonial control, he participated in French military campaigns in Indochina, after which he journeyed to France for further studies. He was to spend several years in exile, living in a number of countries. His first novel, Les soleils des indépendances (The Suns of Independence, 1970) contains an imaginative, yet critical treatment of post-colonial governments in Africa.

Later on he published works like Le diseur de vérité (drama) Monnè, outrages et défis, a history of a century of colonialism, En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages, (translated as Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote), Allah n'est pas oblige (translated as Allah is Not Obliged). Prizes he has won include the Prix Renaudot (2000) and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens. 


Studies:

La langue d'Ahmadou Kourouma, ou, Le français sous le soleil d'Afrique
by Makhily Gassama

Ahmadou Kourouma : le "guerrier" griot by Madeleine Borgomano

Ahmadou Kourouma by Jean-Michel Djian

L'imaginaire d'Ahmadou Kourouma : contours et enjeux d'une esthétique

La créativité langagière dans la prose romanesque d'Ahmadou Kourouma
by Gérard Marie Noumssi

Le politicien, le marabout-féticheur et le griot dans les romans
d'Ahmadou Kourouma by Joseph Ndinda

Histoire et fiction dans la production romanesque d'Ahmadou Kourouma
by Bi Kacou Parfait Diandué

Un donsomana pour Kourouma

Le réel et sa représentation dans l'oeuvre romanesque d'Ahmadou
Kourouma by Mesmin Nicaise Yaussah