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Fortunes of Wangrin tells the story of the rise and fall of an ambitious African interpreter who is always ready to manipulate the French colonial administrators who depend upon his knowledge and political skills, and African chiefs who also depend upon African intermediaries to smooth their way to power within a colo-nial context of indirect rule.
1 de ene. de 2001 · Set in the early 1900’s, The Fortunes of Wangrin follows the life of Wangrin, and interpreter for the French colonisers who hustles both the colonial French and his own people in order to make money and to get the life he wants.
The Fortunes of Wangrin is a classic in Franchophone African literature. Amadou Hampaté Bâ was a distinguished Malian poet and scholar of African oral tradition and precolonial history. Aina...
The Strange Destiny of Wangrin, or The Fortunes of Wangrin, originally published as L'Étrange Destin de Wangrin, is a non-fiction novel written by Malian novelist and scholar Amadou Hampâté Bâ published in 1973.
Little Wangrin let out the cry that announces the arrival of all babies in this baffling world where everyone must endure a thousand and one discomforts and which no one ever leaves alive. The...
The Fortunes of Wangrin is a classic in Franchophone African literature. Amadou Hampaté Bâ was a distinguished Malian poet and scholar of African oral tradition and precolonial history. Aina Pavolini Taylor is an independent translator with wide experience of Africa, now living and working in Italy.
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