Résonances de l’Histoire dans quelques textes d’Ahmadou Kourouma

Abstract

Ahmadou Kourouma’s novels are deeply rooted in African history and reality. The author constructs a dysphoric narrative that reflects the situation of African countries. While these nations have suffered from colonialism and the oppression that accompanied it, their post-independence reality has also been marked by arbitrariness and misery. Despite the political changes experienced by African societies, they brought little progress, leading to widespread disappointment and internecine warfare. Kourouma paints a portrait of an Africa trapped in its own pain and profound contradictions, embedding historical elements within a novelistic framework.

The aim of this paper is to examine how Kourouma’s writing transcends history, filling in its silences and shadows. It will explore how the author recovers historical reality and fictionalizes it. The article is structured around two main themes: first, we will analyze the disillusionment of the African individual in the aftermath of independence; second, we will examine the entanglement of African society in internecine wars after having waged fierce resistance against the colonizer.