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Une chronique universelle de la guerre et de l'exil, écrite avec ironie et humour.

Vie du chanteur, compositeur, poète afro-américain né à Chicago en 1949, Gil Scott-Heron, réinventé ici sous le nom de Sammy l'enchanteur.

La Fédération des Etats-Unis d'Afrique prospère avec ses centres d'affaires et ses mégapoles, indifférente au sort des millions de réfugiés de la sanglante Euramérique qui se pressent à ses frontières. Maya, née dans un bidonville dans la banlieue de Rouen et adoptée par une riche famille kenyane, part en quête de ses origines.

Recueils de poèmes à travers lesquels l'écrivain djiboutien se fait l'écho des bruissements de l'époque contemporaine et livre une ode à la nature malmenée.

Professeur, Aden mène une vie épanouie. Mais la maladie soudaine de sa fille réveille des blessures anciennes qu'il pensait enfouies. Son enfance à Djibouti, bercée par son amour des livres et la douceur de sa grand-mère, ressurgit. Chaque jour, Aden échange avec sa fille et consigne leurs conversations. Il lui relate les paysages de sa jeunesse tandis qu'elle lui raconte son quotidien.

Sur le chemin de l'école maternelle, à Paris, une petite fille demande innocemment à son père pourquoi il donne l'impression de danser en marchant. Boiteux, ce dernier lui raconte alors ce qui est arrivé à sa jambe, à Djibouti, le pays de son enfance. Ce drame qui a bouleversé son destin, faisant de lui un homme qui danse toujours, l'a rendu plus fort et lui a enseigné le prix d...

. Waberi's writing is a tour-de-force, magical, precise and hypnotic, this book will cement his place as a talent to watch out for. Touches on underexplored topics in African literature such as disability. A poignant exploration of father-daughter relationships. Masterfully uses and exploits language, showcasing the author's poetic imagination

Everything starts with a song and everything ends with another song, " says the narrator of The Divine Song. Paris is an old Sufi cat who keeps watch over his brilliant yet pathetic master, Sammy Kamau-Williams, the Enchanter. In Sammy, we recognize the African American singer-composer, poet, and novelist Gil Scott-Heron who is best known for his song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." ​The Divine Song takes us from the shores of Africa t...

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The poems in this new volume by Abdourahman A. Waberi are introspective and inquisitive, reflecting a deep spiritual bond--with words, with the history of Islam and its great poets, with the landscapes those poets walked, among which Waberi grew up. The sage yearns here for the simplicity of each individual moment to somehow become eternal, for the histories and people that are part of him--his mother, his wife, his unborn child, the sacred te...

Djibouti, a hot, impoverished little country on the Horn of Africa, is a place of great strategic importance, for off its coast lies a crucial passage for the world's oil. In this novel by Abdourahman A. Waberi, Djibril, a young Djiboutian voluntarily exiled in Montreal, returns to his native land to prepare a report for an American economic intelligence firm. Meanwhile, a shadowy, threatening figure imprisoned in an island cell seems to know ...

One of the first literary works to portray Djiboutians from their own point of view,

Written in a narrative prose, this is a translated collection of seventeen short stories about the precolonial and colonial past of Djibouti alongside those set in the postcolonial era. Here the art of the short story offers illuminated scenes of the Djiboutian urban and rural landscape, its people, and its history.

Jibril abandonó Yibuti hace años. En Montreal se convirtió en un hombre nuevo. El país de su infancia ahora es para él tan sólo una tierra extraña. Contratado por una agencia de información, debe regresar durante unos días para llevar a cabo una misión. Francia, Estados Unidos, Dubái y los islamistas se disputan este trozo de basalto. A Jibril le tienen sin cuidado sus querellas, pero se siente traicionado por este país que nació, como él mism...

Abdourahman A. Waberi is a novelist, essayist, poet, teacher, and short-story writer. Born in Djibouti, he now lives and writes in France. He is author of The Land without Shadows, In the United States of Africa, and Passage des larmes. Winner of the Stefan-Georg-Preis, the Grand prix litt¿ire d'Afrique noire, and the Prix biennal "Mandat pour la libert¿ he was chosen one of the "50 Writers of the Future" by the French literary magazine Lire.D...

A brilliantly shrewd and cynical universal chronicle of war and exile

Offers a collection of poetry, which takes you to unexpected spaces-in exile, in the muezzin's call, and where morning dew is "sucked up by the eye of the sun-black often, pink from time to time." These poems strongly condemn the civil wars that have plagued East Africa and advocate tolerance and peace.

In a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric, this novel by the acclaimed French-speaking African writer Abdourahman A. Waberi turns the fortunes of the world upside down. On this reimagined globe a stream of sorry humanity flows from the West, from the slums of America and the squalor of Europe, to escape poverty and desperation in the prosperous United States of Africa. It is in this world that an African doctor on a hu...

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Abdourahman A. Waberi is¿a¿novelist, essayist, poet, and short-story writer. Born in Djibouti, he is Professor of French and Francophone literature at George Washington University. The¿author of Transit, ¿In the United States of Africa, Passage of Tears, and La Divine Chanson, he has been awarded¿the Stefan-Georg-Preis, the Grand¿Prix Litt¿ire d'Afrique noire, and the Prix biennal "Mandat pour la libert¿ He was named one of the "50 Writers of ...