The African Child
Camara Laye
159 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0582650763
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1980
AfricaAfrican LiteratureAutobiographyBiographyClassicsFranceGuineaMemoirNonfictionSchool
This book is a distinct and graceful memoir of Camara Laye’s youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea, a place steeped in mystery. Laye marvels over this 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.