Title : Madame Bâ - Erik Orsenna - book
Summary :
Madame Bâ Marguerite was born on August 10, 1947, in Medina (Mali), on the banks of the Senegal River. The daughter of Ousmane, a blacksmith and assistant director of the waterfall, and Mariama, a "traditionist," meaning a scholar of all things from the past, Madame Bâ loves knowledge.
To find her favorite grandson, who disappeared in France, swallowed by the football ogre, she applies for a visa. It is refused. So she addresses the President of the French Republic. One by one, she scrupulously answers all the questions posed by the official form 13-0021. But no one has ever been able to confine Madame Bâ to a framework.
Name, first names, place of birth? Madame Bâ tells of her childhood filled with wonder by the river, of a father's love, of learning about birds?
Family situation? Madame Bâ recounts her sumptuous and painful passion for a too-handsome Fulani husband.
Children? Madame Bâ tells her eight children about this strange "compass disease" that affects them?
Without embellishment or complacency, Madame Bâ recounts today's Africa, its violence, its shattered dreams, its mafias. But also its eternal riches of solidarity, this formidable weaving between human beings.
Madame Bâ is first and foremost that: the portrait of a woman. An African woman, that is to say, a woman who, more than any other woman, must fight for her dignity and her freedom.
Fifteen years after the Colonial Exhibition , I set out again to explore France's relations with its former empire. But this time, it's the South that's looking at us. EO
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EAN : 9782213615455
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