While Africa and France celebrate fifty years of African independence, a witness this time of the emancipation of the former French territories continent has passed away this June 10: the Cameroonian writer Ferdinand Oyono. Born in 1929, his work is a photograph of the encounter between the black man and white man's land in Africa. There is no doubt the author to be scrutinized carefully the colonial period, with a scathing humor. His novel "The Old negro and the Medal ", one of the most studied works in Africa, published in 1956 - thus predating Independence - keeps a startling news. In this fiction, formerly an old African soldier of the French Empire and who fought to defend this show its continued commitment by sending his two children later ... who will die for France. Meka is not his last act of devotion as it also will divest its land to France at the Catholic mission. France is sensitive this attitude and will reward the old man: he was promised a medal ... the night of the ceremony, drunk to death, after many vicissitudes, Meka end in jail and will include the borders between the white world of his country and that "indigenous" in overcrowded slums.
Oyono and we showed a naked African, lured by the colonial power that used the strength of Aboriginal rewarded with a dish of lentils. Location that most Senegalese sharpshooters will never forget.
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