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Segu

Segu

Conde, Maryse

Paperback

Literary CriticismHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 014025949X
ISBN13: 9780140259490
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Sep 1 1996
Pages: 512
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.97 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.74
Language: English
Condé's story is rich and colorful and glorious. It sprawls over continents and centuries to find its way into the reader's heart. --Maya Angelou

A wondrous novel (The New York Times) by the winner of the 2018 New Academy Prize (The Alternative Nobel prize in literature) and author of The Gospel According to the New World

The year is 1797, and the kingdom of Segu is flourishing, fed by the wealth of its noblemen and the power of its warriors. The people of Segu, the Bambara, are guided by their griots and priests; their lives are ruled by the elements. But even their soothsayers can only hint at the changes to come, for the battle of the soul of Africa has begun. From the east comes a new religion, Islam, and from the West, the slave trade. Segu follows the life of Dousika Traore, the king's most trusted advisor, and his four sons, whose fates embody the forces tearing at the fabric of the nation. There is Tiekoro, who renounces his people's religion and embraces Islam; Siga, who defends tradition, but becomes a merchant; Naba, who is kidnapped by slave traders; and Malobali, who becomes a mercenary and halfhearted Christian.

Based on actual events, Segu transports the reader to a fascinating time in history, capturing the earthy spirituality, religious fervor, and violent nature of a people and a growing nation trying to cope with jihads, national rivalries, racism, amid the vagaries of commerce.

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