A Leap Out of the Dark
By Gorgui Dieng.
Description
"A Leap Out of the Dark is probably the first novel in English written by a Senegalese writer. In theme and style, it is closer to the Anglophone novel of postcolonial disillusionment than to the standard Senegalese novel in French. Written against the political background of the anonymous African State of Kensega, which could also stand for the author's own country in many respects, the novel tells the story of a man, Moodu Njie, and his struggle for true African democracy through the re-education of the masses in and through their own national language, Wolof. The author also...
ISBN(s)
2913408079, 9782913408074
