"NOMAD'S LAND": ABDOURAHMAN WABERI'S DJIBOUTI

From: Black Renaissance | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

"J'habite toujours, comme d'autres à Lauralité-sur-Lécry."(1)

-- Abdourahamn Waberi, Le Nouvel Observateur

Abdourahman Waberi was born in 1965 in Djibouti,(2) and now lives in France. In 1994, he published his first short story collection, Le Pays sans ombre, followed in 1996 by a second short story collection, Cahier nomade. In 1997 he published his first novel, Balbala, named after Djibouti's "great shantytown of stones and corrugated metal" (Balbala 14).(3) Although Waberi is only one of a hand full of Francophone writers of fiction(4) to have emerged from the tiny ex-French colony (it ...

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