Article: Allah is not Obliged.(Brief article)(Book review)

Allah is not Obliged

By Ahmadou Kourouma

[pounds sterling]14.99 William Heinemann

ISBN 0-434-00957-1

This is a powerful and affecting novel of Africa's child-soldiers, by French Africa's pre-eminent novelist. It relates the story of Birahima, a 10-year-old boy who lives in Cote d'Ivoire. He is a soldier.

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Birahima tells how, after his mother died, he left his native village accompanied by the sorcerer and crook, Yacouba, to search for his Aunt Mahan. Crossing the border into Liberia, they are seized by a rebel force and press-ganged into military ...

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