The Shameful State. Sony Labou Tansi

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      Sony Labou Tansi, author.

      [L’État honteux. English]

      The shameful state / Sony Labou Tansi ; translated by

      Dominic Thomas ; foreword by Alain Mabanckou.

      pages cm.—(Global African voices)

      ISBN 978-0-253-01925-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-253-01932-5 (ebook)

      I. Thomas, Dominic Richard David, translator. II. Title.

      III. Series: Global African voices.

      PQ3989.2.S64E813 2015

      843'.914—dc23

      2015021504

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      For AME LA YAO, H. LOPÈS, and U. TAM’SI

      Together we shall fight

      until freedom is no longer

      a word buttered with sardines.

      FOREWORD