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Ahmadou Kourouma was born on 24 November, 1927 in Boundiali, Côte d'Ivoire. He was a novelist and playwright, and is considered one of the most important African writers of the 20th century. He was a member of the Akan ethnic group, and his works often explored the themes of colonialism, post-colonialism, and African identity.
Kourouma studied at the University of Abidjan, where he received a degree in philosophy. He then moved to France, where he studied at the Sorbonne and the University of Paris. He published his first novel, Les Soleils des Indépendances, in 1970. The novel was a critical success and won the Prix Renaudot.
Kourouma's other works include Monnè, l'Enfant Peul (1977), Allah n'est pas obligé (2000), and En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages (2004). He also wrote several plays, including La Mort de l'Empereur Béhanzin (1977) and Le Dernier des Fous (1980).
Kourouma died on December 17, 2020, at the age of 93. He was survived by his wife, two sons, and two daughters.
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At the outbreak of civil war in Côte d'Ivoire in 2002, Kourouma stood against the war as well as against the concept of Ivorian nationalism, calling it "an absurdity which has led us to chaos." President Laurent Gbagbo accused him of supporting rebel groups from the north of the country.
In France, each of Ahmadou Kourouma's novels has been greeted with great acclaim, sold exceptionally well, and been showered with prizes including the Prix Renaudot in the year 2000 and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens for Allah n'est pas obligé. In the English-speaking world, Kourouma has yet to make much of an impression: despite some positive reviews, his work remains largely unknown outside university classes in African fiction. Allah Is Not Obliged received its first English translation in 2006.
Determined to speak out against the betrayal of legitimate African aspirations at the dawn of independence, Kourouma was drawn into an experiment in fiction. His first novel, Les Soleils des indépendances (The Suns of Independence, 1970) contains a critical treatment of post-colonial governments in Africa. Twenty years later, his second book Monnè, outrages et défis, a history of a century of colonialism, was published. In 1998, he published En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages (translated as Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote), a satire of postcolonial Africa in the style of Voltaire, with elements of the Epic of Sundiata, in which a griot recounts the story of a tribal hunter's transformation into a dictator, inspired by president Gnassingbé Eyadéma of Togo. In 2000, he published Allah n'est pas obligé (translated as Allah is Not Obliged), a tale of an orphan who becomes a child soldier when traveling to visit his aunt in Liberia.
Kourouma returned to his native Côte d'Ivoire after it won its independence in 1960, yet he quickly found himself questioning the government of Félix Houphouët-Boigny. After brief imprisonment, Kourouma spent several years in exile, first in Algeria (1964–69), then in Cameroon (1974–84) and Togo (1984–94), before finally returning to live in Côte d'Ivoire.
Ahmadou Kourouma (24 November 1927 – 11 December 2003) was an Ivorian novelist.
The eldest son of a distinguished Malinké family, Ahmadou Kourouma was born in 1927 in Boundiali, Côte d'Ivoire. Raised by his uncle, he initially pursued studies in Bamako, Mali. From 1950 to 1954, when his country was still under French colonial control, he participated in French military campaigns in Indochina, after which he journeyed to France to study mathematics in Lyon.
