Used book – Monné, Outrages and Challenges, Ahmadou Kourouma

Disobeying Samory, emperor of all the Mandinka country, the king of Soba, Djigui Keïta, did not raze his city when the colonial troops arrived - certain that the magic of his ancestors, the protection of Allah, and the hastily built wall would be enough to repel the "Nazarenes." Thus, they took Soba without a fight. But while the griots sang the glory of Djigui Keïta and his one hundred and twenty years of reign, the deposed king plunged into an increasingly deadly collaboration with the occupiers.

Beneath the tragic and ludicrous epic of a people subjected to colonization, a satire emerges of modern African states delivered to their demons, and an indictment as amusing as it is violent against the conformisms that sometimes lead to the worst compromises.