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Ivory Coast

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  • NovelKocoumbo, l'étudiant noirAké Loba · 1960not translated into EnglishA young African who has come to study in Paris, torn between his village and the West, in the time of colonisation.Literature
  • CinemaThe Human PyramidLa Pyramide humaineJean Rouch · 1961Schoolboys from Abidjan are invited to improvise, for a film, the friendship that colonial society denies them.Cinema
  • NovelThe Suns of IndependenceLes Soleils des indépendancesAhmadou Kourouma · 1968A Malinke prince ruined by independence, in a French bent to the syntax of his own language.Literature
  • CinemaThe Woman with the KnifeLa Femme au couteauTimité Bassori · 1969A man returned from Europe, torn between two cultures and pursued by a vision that terrifies him.Cinema
  • TheatreMonsieur Thôgô-gniniBernard Dadié · 1970not translated into EnglishA servant of the king becomes the go-between for the European traders who have come to open up commerce, and grows rich at the expense of his own people.Literature
  • TheatreAbraha Pokou ou Une grande africaineCharles Nokan · 1970not translated into EnglishA princess who prefers exile to the reign of a tyrant, in the legend of the birth of a people.Literature
  • NovelLes Frasques d'ÉbintoAmadou Koné · 1975not translated into EnglishA schoolboy promised a brilliant academic career, caught out by a pregnancy and by custom.Literature
  • NarrativeLes Danseuses d'Impé-EyaSimone Kaya · 1976not translated into EnglishThe childhood memories of the first Ivorian woman writer, in the colonial Abidjan of the forties.Literature
  • NovelMasseniTidiane Dem · 1977A child born of a granted wish, in a village of the Ivorian savannah before the war, amid rites and beliefs.Literature
  • NovelLa Carte d'identitéJean-Marie Adiaffi · 1980not translated into EnglishAn Agni prince summoned to prove his identity with a piece of paper, in a novel that takes the form of an initiation.Literature
  • CinemaDjeli, a Modern TaleDjéli, conte d'aujourd'huiFadika Kramo-Lanciné · 1981Two students whom custom keeps apart, he the son of a griot, she of noble blood, in present-day Ivory Coast.Cinema
  • PoetryDéjà vuNoël X. Ebony · 1983not translated into EnglishThe first collection by an Ivorian poet in exile, which breaks with the poetry of his elders.Literature
  • CinemaPetanquiKozoloa Yéo · 1983A notable from the time of the famine is brought to trial, and the child who has become a lawyer pleads for him.Cinema
  • PoetryRed EarthLatériteVéronique Tadjo · 1984The first collection of an Ivorian poet, written on the desert roads and turned toward Senufo country.Literature
  • CinemaAn Exotic ComedyComédie exotiqueKitia Touré · 1984A French specialist in sacred art, masks and a prohibition: Kitia Touré's first feature film.Cinema
  • TheatreLa Guerre des femmesBernard Zadi Zaourou · 1985not translated into EnglishA myth of the earliest times, when women and men lived in two enemy camps.Literature
  • CinemaFaces of WomenVisages de femmesDésiré Écaré · 1985Women's desire and money, filmed in fragments over twelve years, in a village and in Abidjan.Cinema
  • NovelLa Révolte d'AffibaRégina Yaou · 1985not translated into EnglishA widow against the custom that seeks to strip her: an Ivorian novel about the rights of married women.Literature
  • Short storiesAh, les femmes !Isaïe Biton Koulibaly · 1987not translated into EnglishShort stories about Ivorian women and couples, seen through a man's eyes.Literature
  • CinemaAduefue, the Lords of the StreetLes GuérisseursSidiki Bakaba · 1988A young man returned from France, whom the street and the nights of the capital draw away from any plan.Cinema
  • CinemaDancing in the DustBal poussièreHenri Duparc · 1988A village notable, already provided with five wives, insists on taking a sixth.Cinema
  • NovelLe Fils-de-la-femme-mâleMaurice Bandaman · 1993not translated into EnglishA hero of successive lives, born of the marvellous, standing against tyranny and injustice.Literature
  • CinemaIn the Name of ChristAu nom du ChristRoger Gnoan M'Bala · 1993A despised swineherd who discovers a kinship with Christ and preaches to his village a faith of his own making.Cinema
  • NovelLes Baigneurs du lac RoseTanella Boni · 1995not translated into EnglishA journalist following the trail of a vanished man and of a hero of the African resistance.Literature
  • NovelRebelleFatou Keïta · 1998not translated into EnglishA young girl who refuses excision, from the village of her childhood to France.Literature