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Article: Abdourahman A. Waberi. Aux Etats-Unis d'Afrique.(Book review)
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- World Literature Today
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- March 1, 2007
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Abdourahman A. Waberi. Aux Etats-Unis d'Afrique. Paris. J. C. Lattes. 2006. 233 pages. 15 [euro]. ISBN 2-7096-2813-9
IN Aux ETATS-UNIS D'AFRIQUE, his sixth work of fiction, Djiboutian author Abdourahman Waberi creates a farcical world in which Africa is rich and prosperous, attracting many immigrants from Europe and America--continents devastated by war and disease. Waberi humorously invents an Africa to which many Western accomplishments, inventions, and products are attributed. The first man on the moon was Ezra Mapanza, a major film is A l'est de Bangui (with a James Dean clone), MAAMM (the Maputo museum of African art in Mozambique) is compared to the Grand ...