As she was discovering Tigony
By: Olympe Bhely-Quenum ; translated by Tomi Adeaga
Contributors: Adeaga, Tomi, 1968- translator
Series: African humanities and the arts
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781611862096; 9781609174958; 9781628952681; 9781628962680
Subjects: African literature (French)
Work titles: C'était à Tigony
Description: "Dorcas Keurleonan-Moricet is a brilliant white geophysicist posted on assignment in Africa. She falls in love with a young African man, Segue n'Di, and enters into an extramarital affair with him. In her professional work, she discovers deposits of minerals of inestimable worth. Reading the current age of globalization and neoliberalism as one in which the riches of Africa are again being cynically exploited by multinational companies including her own Keurleonan-Moricet's views and her life gradually change. As the popular resistance against the dictatorial regime in power grows, she comes to play a key role in the unfolding political drama."--Wheelers website.