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This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki's footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work undocumented immigrants. After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased with a stolen checkbook, he winds up in jail and is deported. Blue White Red is a novel of postcolonial Africa where young people born into poverty dream of making it big in the cities of their former colonial masters. Alain Mabanckou's searing commentary on the lives of Africans in France is cut with the parody of African villagers who boast of a son in the country of Digol.
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Alain Mabanckou
Né au Congo-Brazzaville, Alain Mabanckou est poète, essayiste et l’auteur de plusieurs romans dont Verre Cassé (Seuil, 2005), Mémoires de Porc-épic (Seuil, prix Renaudot 2006), Demain j’aurai vingt ans (Gallimard, 2010), Petit Piment (Seuil, 2015). L’ensemble de son œuvre a été couronné par l’Académie Française (Prix de Littérature Henri Gal, 2012). Il enseigne la littérature francophone à l’Université de Californie-Los Angeles (UCLA). En 2015, Alain Mabanckou est nommé Professeur au Collège de France pour la Chaire annuelle de Création artistique 2016. Il a publié chez Mémoire d’encrier deux recueils de poésie, Tant que les arbres s’enracineront dans la terre (2004) et Congo (2016).
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