The King of Kahel

Tierno Monenembo s The King of Kahel was originally published in France in 2008 and was the winner of the French literary prize, the prix Renaudot, which is awarded to the author of an outstanding original novel Loosely based on the life of Olivier de Sanderval, a man who journeyed to Guinea to build an empire by conquering the hostile region of Fouta Djallon, the book exposes how Sanderval braves all dangers to build a railway that will bring modern civilization to Africa. New Read The King of Kahel [ By ] Tierno Monénembo [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Biographie romanc e d un aventurier ayant r ellement exist , Olivier de Sanderval, qui fut maire en France puis roi en pays Peul.Un personnage pittoresque comme l atteste son parcours et auquel l auteur, Tierno Monenembo donne une personnalit absolument excentrique, mais qui incarne galement la vision des colonisateurs fran ais progressistes du XIXe si cle comme Jules Ferry.Ses aventures au Fouta Djalon nous donnent un aper u du fonctionnement de la soci t peule cette poque, tandis que s Biographie romanc e d un aventurier ayant r ellement exist , Olivier de Sanderval, qui fut maire en France puis roi en pays Peul.Un personnage pittoresque comme l atteste son parcours et auquel l auteur, Tierno Monenembo donne une personnalit absolument excentrique, mais qui incarne galement la vision des colonisateurs fran ais progressistes du XIXe si cle comme Jules Ferry.Ses aventures au Fouta Djalon nous donnent un aper u ...The King of Kahel is my book from Guinea for the Read The World challenge It is the first book printed by Crossing,s own publishing imprint specialising in translated literature They say Crossing uses customer feedback and other data fromsites to identify exceptional works that deserve a wider, global audience So this book was presumably picked up because it was a big hit in French.It s rather unusual among all the post colonial literature I ve read for the Read The King of Kahel is my book from Guinea for the Read The World challenge It is the first book printed by Crossing,s own publishing imprint specialising in translated literature They say Crossing uses customer feedback and other data fromsites to identify exceptional works that deserve a wider, global audience So this book was presumably picked up because it was a big hit in French.It s rather unusual am...I receivedLe Mot Juste A Dictionary of Classical and Foreign Words and Phrases for my tenth birthday, and though I am unable to locate it in the stacks at the moment, though I suspect that it is somewhere in the second or third row of books on the shelf in the foyer i distinctly remember an entry for a word in Javanese or Zulu that translates roughly into English as the act of stealing everything a man owns by borrowing each of his possessions one by one and not returning them This w I receivedLe Mot Juste A Dictionary of Classical and Foreign Words and Phrases for my tenth birthday, and though I am unable to locate it in the stacks at the moment, though I suspect that it is somewhere in the second or third row of books on the shelf in the foyer i distinctly remember an entry for a word in Javanese or Zulu that translates roughly into English as the act of stealing everything a man owns by borrowing each of his possessions one by one and not returning them This word, if I were willing, in this sweltering heat, to move away from my spot in front of the fan to get up and look for the aforementioned book, would make a fitting description in this review for precisely what happened to the kingdom of Fouta Djallon and her princes and almami spiritual ledger and ruler of the entire kingdom but also what ultimately happens to Aime Olivier Viscount de Sanderval in his doomed pursuit of the Kingd...I m always on the lookout for new fiction from Africa, so when I saw this translation of a Guinean book was available I snapped it up Aside from my interest in world literature, my grandparents lived in Conakry from 1960 62, so the country holds a particular interest for me The novel as a form does not have a long history in Africa, and as a result, much of the African fiction available in the West focuses on the struggle for in...Aime Sanderval Olivier de Sanderval dreamed of going to Africa to find land that had never been seen by a white man before, so that he could set about improving the Negroes, and creating a new Versailles for France He was determined to be a King He believed that he could win over the Kingdom Fouta Djallon Central Guinea by enlightenment, not by fighting, and he was convinced if he could become one of the Fulas, they would make him a King Monenembo has written this wonderful historical fic Aime Sanderval Olivier de Sanderval dreamed of going to Africa to find land that had never been seen by a white man before, so that he could set about improving the Negroes, and creating a new Versailles for France He was determined to be a King He believe...Une biographie romanc e d un aventurier qui r vait de se tailler un royaume en Afrique Il y a des qualit s, surtout dans la description du peuple Peul, un peuple assez trange ne rechignant pas couper des t tes et en m me temps amateur de paperasserie Mais le gros probl me est que la moiti des... ,Fearless Frenchman Founds Forest FiefWe have a number of colonial tales of white men who strove to carve out kingdoms among peoples in odd corners of the world that had not yet been much influenced by the West Kipling s The Man Who Would Be King does come to mind, butimpressive is the true story of the white rajahs of Sarawak, a British family dynasty that ruled a large patch on Borneo s north coast for over a century When these tales are told, it is always from the European point of v Fearless Frenchman Founds Forest FiefWe have a number of colonial tales of white men who strove to carve out kingdoms among peoples in odd corners of the world that had not yet been much influenced by the West Kipling s The Man Who Would Be King does come to mind, butimpressive is the true story of the white rajahs of Sarawak, a British family dyn...Read for my Postcolonialism class.2.5, I didn t hate this book, I just don t think it was for me.

• English
• 19 April 2018
Tierno Monénembo
• Paperback
• 304 pages
• 0982555075
• Tierno Monénembo
• The King of Kahel