![]() ![]() ![]() Also: African boys can have haircuts that enrage their fathers too! Abouet neither patronises nor white-washes her cast: African men can be as unfaithful and manipulative (and women as gullible) as European and American men, but they can also have a heart of gold like Herv, a young man so skilled as a mechanic that the garage's ailing owner wants to make him a business partner, if only he can learn to count and write. Unsurprising since it's the real Dad but not the match he was hoping for! ![]() But when Adjoua's father, Hyacinte, continues to scramble round town frantically trying to find anyone resembling Bobby and claim him as a relative, he accidentally finds an almost identical match. The thing is it is Adjoua's baby boy (Bobby, named after Bobby Ewing - "I want him to be as kind as the one in Dallas"!), but it isn't Moussa's which is a shame because Moussa's parents are swimming-pool rich. Shame about the meddling relatives and neighbours.įor example, when not only is a baby boy's paternity questioned but his maternity also, it leads to awkward bluffs and a quick return visit from the city to the family's village in order to take photographs to show some family likeness. An enormously fun and spirited fiction, this Anglouême 2006 winner tells of 1970s life on the Ivory Coast, "an Africa we rarely see spirited, hopefully and resilient".Īya, 19, is studious and clear-sighted, with easy-going friends. ![]()
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