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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"In order to calm him, Samba asks him to speak of the “white man’s country”"
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”"
"waited on God with such a spirit”"
"the eternal mystery of death” as well as paradise"
"“[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”"