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Blue White Red: A Novel (Global African Voices) by Mabanckou, Alain is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Blue White Red: A Novel (Global African Voices) about?

This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki's footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work undocumented immigrants. After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased with a stolen checkbook, he winds up in jail and is deported. Blue White Red is a novel of postcolonial Africa where young people born into poverty dream of making it big in the cities of their former colonial masters. Alain Mabanckou's searing commentary on the lives of Africans in France is cut with the parody of African villagers who boast of a son in the country of Digol.words : 49795

Who reads Blue White Red: A Novel (Global African Voices)?

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Mabanckou, Alain
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Published
1998
Language
EN
ISBN
9780253007919
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance
Rating
3.93 / 5 (49 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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