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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...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
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Follows the stories of three women who discover the power of saying no, including a lawyer who must save a victim of her tyrannical father, a Dakar teacher whose happiness is thwarted by a depressed boyfriend, and a penniless widow desperate to escape homelessness.
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Modern Language Association of America
Pub. Date
1994
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In the 18th Century, an African girl is rescued from slavery and raised in an aristocratic family in France. One day she overhears nasty comments on her skin color thus becoming conscious for the first time of her race. This turns her life upside down, until she meets a doctor who convinces her to accept herself as she is. The narrator is the girl.
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Series
Livre de poche volume 30239
Publisher
Éditions Anne Carrière
Pub. Date
[2003]
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"Salie vit en France. Son frère, Madické, rêve de l'y rejoindre. Mais comment lui expliquer la face cachée de l'immigration, lui qui voit la France comme une terre promise où réussissent les footballeurs sénégalais, où vont se réfugier ceux qui, comme Sankèle, fuient leur destin tragique? Comment empêcher Madické et ses camarades de laisser courir leur imagination, quand l'homme de Barbès, de retour au pays, gagne en notabilité, escamote...
6) L'accusation
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JC Lattès
Pub. Date
2023.
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Peu après les attentats de Charlie Hebdo, alors que la paranoïa s'empare des esprits, Inès est accusée d'apologie du terrorisme et suspendue par sa hiérarchie. Que s'est-il passé ? Qui a dénoncé cette professeure de philosophie d'origine maghrébine qui s'est toujours identifiée aux valeurs de la République ?En quête de justice et de vérité, la jeune femme va rencontrer une galaxie de personnages et redécouvrir sa mémoire enfouie...
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