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"this history has undergone an accident which has shifted it and, finally, drawn it away from its plan”"
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Ambiguous Adventure
L'Aventure ambiguë is a novel by Senegalese author Cheikh Hamidou Kane, first published in 1961, about the interactions of western and African cultures. Its hero is a boy from the Diallobé region of Senegal who goes to study in France. There, he loses touch with his Islamic faith and his Senegalese roots. It won the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 1962. A 1963 English translation of the n
"this history has undergone an accident which has shifted it and, finally, drawn it away from its plan”"
"In order to calm him, Samba asks him to speak of the “white man’s country”"
"the eternal mystery of death” as well as paradise"
"waited on God with such a spirit”"
"“[t]each him to check the external”"
"the work of the spirit and the work of the field”"
"part of themselves which weighs them down”"
"Your salvation, the presence of God living in you, depends upon yourself. You will obtain both these if, in mind and body, you rigorously observe His law, which religion has codified”"
"world is being fused” and that all of humanity will share the same future"
"He made his chahâda wave like a banner in the wind!” (99)."
"no more could he avow the reason for his sudden withdrawal: the impossibility of enduring any longer the calm inquiry of those blue eyes which the girl had fixed on him since the first moments of their meeting”"
"liberated” humanity from its “absurd fears”"