Allah is Not Obliged
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Ahmadou Kourouma. (2011). Allah is Not Obliged. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Ahmadou Kourouma. 2011. Allah Is Not Obliged. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Ahmadou Kourouma, Allah Is Not Obliged. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

Ahmadou Kourouma. Allah Is Not Obliged. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

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   • bioText: Ahmadou Kourouma was born in the Ivory Coast in 1927. He was the author of the novels The Suns of Independence, Monnew, and Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote. Hailed as one of the leading African writers in French, he died in 2003.
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ALLAH IS NOT OBLIGED TO BE FAIR ABOUT ALL THE THINGS HE DOES HERE ON EARTH.These are the words of the boy soldier Birahima in the final masterpiece by one of Africa’s most celebrated writers, Ahmadou Kourouma. When ten-year-old Birahima's mother dies, he leaves his native village in the Ivory Coast, accompanied by the sorcerer and cook Yacouba, to search for his aunt Mahan. Crossing the border into Liberia, they are seized by rebels and forced into military service. Birahima is given a Kalashnikov, minimal rations of food, a small supply of dope and a tiny wage. Fighting in a chaotic civil war alongside many other boys, Birahima sees death, torture, dismemberment and madness but somehow manages to retain his own sanity. Raw and unforgettable, despairing yet filled with laughter, Allah Is Not Obliged reveals the ways in which children's innocence and youth are compromised by war.

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     "A tour de force -- original, irreverent, brutal, funny, poetic -- in which history and myth are brilliantly evoked." --The Independent (London)"This is one of the funniest, most powerful, most intense novels to appear in French for a decade." --Le Nouvel Observateur (Paris)"Shocking and deeply moving. . . . . An African Lord of the Flies." --The Guardian (London)"Witty and wholly authentic. . . . Spellbinding. . . . Kourouma has been likened to Voltaire. . . Gabriel García Márquez also comes to mind, likewise John Updike's sparkling ventriloquism."

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     Starred review from February 12, 2007
     The late Ivory Coast author and political activist Kourouma (Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote
     ) writes with a brutal and obscene frankness reminiscent of Celine in this powerfully tragic novel about a West African child soldier who learns early that "Allah is not obliged to be fair about all the things he does here on earth." Unsure if he's 10 or 12 years old, "rude as a goat's beard" Birahima, a third-grade dropout, recalls how his once-beautiful mother became an amputee who "moved on her arse like a caterpillar" and that he suspected her of being a soul-devouring sorceress. After her death, the boy is entrusted to a roguish shaman and sent to live with an aunt in Liberia. En route, they fall into the clutches of a warlord, and Birahima joins their forces as a boy soldier, witnessing and participating in all manner of savagery. Although Birahima's regurgitation of word definitions and chunks of West African history is awkward, this French import is a worthy if difficult read. And the popularity of the current Starbucks pick, the child soldier memoir A Long Way Gone
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