The dark child
by Camara, Laye.
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[This book] is a ... memoir of [the author's] youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea, a place steeped in mystery. [He] marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's distinction as the village goldsmith, and his own passage into manhood, which is marked by animistic beliefs and bloody rituals of primeval origin. Eventually, he must choose between this unique place and the academic success that lures him to distant cities. More than the autobiography of one boy, this is the universal story of sacred traditions struggling against the encroachment of a modern world.-Back cover.
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Social life and customs, Guinean Authors, Guinea, Biography, Guinea, social life and customsPeople
Laye CamaraPlaces
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The dark child.: With an introd. by Philippe Thoby-Marcellin. [Translated from the French by James Kirkup and Ernest Jones]
1969, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
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Ko e tama uli.: Kua liluina e Tahafa Pope Talagi.
1967, Islands Education Division of the Dept. of Education
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Translation of L'enfant noir.
Autobiographical.
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