Les enfants de la guerre: Adolescence et violence postcoloniale chez Badjoko, Dongala, Kourouma et Monenembo

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Journal Article

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Author

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Presence Francophone

Volume

66

First Page

81

Last Page

110

Publication Date

2006

Abstract

This essay deals with the representation of African child-soldiers in three novels and an autobiography. Why do children take part in African postcolonial civil wars? How are they portrayed? These children are not —as public opinion would often have it— only the victims of postcolonial violence, but are also agents of social change. Their violent involvement in political affairs constitutes the most radical form of their determination to be heard, and the most eloquent form of their protest against their precarious living conditions in a postcolonial Africa in crisis.

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