![]() ![]() In the process he tells us more than we really want to know about what is going on in Africa and his view of the West’s role in those goings-on. He tells us the story of his life as a street kid then a child soldier. And still his father fathered two children on her and she remarried, but to a man who could not impregnate her because he did not learn the trick of doing so, Birahima tells us. She scoots along the floor of their hut with one leg in the air, as he describes it, her butt bumping along the ground, her second leg a rotting stump. Birahima was born to a mother who caught some sort of wasting disease following her circumcision, which took place in the woods at the hands of a excisor along with all of the other village girls her age. However, my experience of god not being fair and Birahima’s experience are wildly different in scale. ![]() God is not fair and is not obliged to be, no matter what we wish. The title, which intrigued me, comes from a saying of the protagonist, Allah is not obliged to be fair about all the things he does here on earth. So maybe this is a recommendation of sorts. Kourouma died before completing a follow-up novel to this one and I am dying to read whatever he left. ![]() It’s the last complete novel by Kourouma, “one of Africa’s most celebrated writers” (back cover), who spent much of his life being educated or in exile in the west. This is not a recommendation, necessarily.Īmazon recommended this book based on other apparently depressing purchases I made. ![]()
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