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Babingo

von Moussibahou Mazou

Fiction History Cultural Studies

ISBN

9789988550875

Verlag

Sub-Saharan Publishers

Erschienen

23.08.2021

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Stichwörter

Historical Fiction African Literature Cultural Identity Language and Communication Colonialism Postcolonialism Family Dynamics 1950s Pointe-Noire Congo French Language Indigenous Languages Kituba Cultural Heritage Tradition vs Modernity Rebellion Bildungsroman Advocacy Multilingualism African Education French-speaking Africa Social Commentary Identity Crisis Generational Conflict Teenager Coming of Age Literary Fiction African History Language Politics Cultural Assimilation Ancestral Traditions.

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In Pointe-Noire of the 1950's lived Paul Makouta, a "civilized" and westernized native who was very proud of communicating exclusively in French with Madeleine Mamatouka, his wife, Alex his only son, and the other children of his household. Under no circumstance did Makouta allow the members of his family speak the language of Metropolitan France with the slightest trace of a Bantu accent. Again, anyone who dared speak Kituba, an indigenous language, with the family's domestic staff was liable to severe reprimand. Clearly, the father's intransigence was at odds with the communicative practices in the neighborhood and of children commuting daily to school. And it was only natural for Tessa, a fellow pupil from the neighborhood, to successfully convince her teenage friend, Alex Babingo, of the absurdity of Makouta's directive. Little did Alex Babingo realize that his initial acceptance of the irrationality of the father's prohibition in colonized Congo was only the start of a trajectory which, from the other side of the world, would impel his return to the very roots of his culture and ancestral traditions in the now independent Republic of Congo or Congo-Brazzaville. Babingo, the Noble Rebel is a poignant and pulsating advocacy for the mainstreaming of indigenous languages into the curriculum of African countries, not least those belonging to the French-speaking world.