The Ambiguous Adventure - Cheikh Hamidou Kane
Moving from the Koranic teaching of the Diallobé to the French university, the young Samba Diallo must face exile and identity gaps. His philosophical, ethical and spiritual apprenticeship traces the journey of a mixed Africa in search of itself. Where the flamboyant clamor of a people in need of existence rises.
192 pages
Author: Cheikh Hamidou Kane
Preface by Vincent Monteil
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Nationality: Senegal
Born in: Matam, 04/02/1928
Biography:
Cheik Hamidou Kane is a Senegalese writer born in Matam in 1928, who also held ministerial positions under the presidency of Abdou Diouf.
After studying economics at the Sorbonne, during which he contributed to the journal Esprit and frequented intellectual circles, he was appointed, at the age of thirty, governor of Thiès.
He is the author of L'Aventure ambiguë (Julliard, 1961), a tale of the torment of an African emigrant in the West caught between two cultures: "If I tell them to go to the new school (...) is what they will learn worth what they will forget?" This book received the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 1962.
On March 27, 1990, he was appointed Minister Delegate to the President of the Republic, responsible for African economic integration.
After a literary silence of several decades, in 1995 he published Les Gardiens du temple with Stock, a sequel to L'Aventure ambiguë, which recounts in a highly fictionalized way the conflict that opposed, in 1962, Mamadou Dia and Léopold Sédar Senghor, two men with whom he had long been close.
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