Short stories
Deux adorables rivales
Not translated into English
Roger Nikiéma · 1971
Synopsis
Two stories, the one that gives the book its title and “Les Soleils de la terre”. Neither their action nor their characters are known; only the title announces two rivals.
Context
The book was published in 1971 in Yaoundé, by Éditions Clé, the Cameroonian house that then published francophone African authors for lack of national publishers. Five years earlier its author had had a first prose book printed in Ouagadougou, by Presses africaines: the difference between the two addresses speaks for the state of publishing in Upper Volta. In 1970 he also wrote another book, which appeared only in 2005.
Who it is for
In French, two short narratives gathered in a slim volume, hard to find today outside libraries.
Prizes and reception
Burkinabè literary histories date the birth of the short story in the country from this book.