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"Le roi de Kahel is based on biographical sources. The "King of Kahel" was Aime Victor Olivier, who lived from 1840 to 1919 and made five visits to the mountainous Fouta-Djalon region (in what is now Guinea). Olivier had wanted to go to Africa since childhood, to find a country that could take over the civilization that he felt would disappear from northern climes with the coming of a new Ice Age. He was a rare nineteenth-century colonial adventurer who grew to have respect for Africans. In presenting a Frenchman in many ways the opposite of the typical colonialist, Tierno Monenembo has written one of the very few novels by an African told from the point of view of a European. Filled with detailed descriptions and ironic comments on both the Europeans and the Africans, it is an excellent portrait of a moment in the encounter of the two continents."
"The story is loosely inspired by the life of Olivier de Sanderval, who, intent on becoming an explorer for most of his life, finally set sale for Africa in 1879 after turning 40. As Monenembo tells it, once there he recruits a crew of Senegalese infantryment and travels to Fouta Djallon, a land he desperately wants to rule. He learns local customs that will aid him in his quest to govern. During the following years of conquests and re-conquests, Sanderval never loses his taste for European luxury and moves between Africa and France, where he publishes books on his experience and struggles to command Fouta. Eventually, her returns to Fouta with his grown son, Georges, to find war raging between locals and the French army, finally extinguishing his lifelong dream."@en
"The story is loosely inspired by the life of Olivier de Sanderval, who, intent on becoming an explorer for most of his life, finally set sale for Africa in 1879 after turning 40. As Monenembo tells it, once there he recruits a crew of Senegalese infantryment and travels to Fouta Djallon, a land he desperately wants to rule. He learns local customs that will aid him in his quest to govern. During the following years of conquests and re-conquests, Sanderval never loses his taste for European luxury and moves between Africa and France, where he publishes books on his experience and struggles to command Fouta. Eventually, her returns to Fouta with his grown son, Georges, to find war raging between locals and the French army, finally extinguishing his lifelong dream."
"Biographie romancée d'Aimé Victor Olivier, vicomte de Sanderval, qui fonda, au début des années 1880, le projet de conquérir à titre privé le Fouta Djalon, actuelle Guinée, et d'y faire passer une ligne de chemin de fer. Au cours de cinq voyages successifs, il parviendra à gagner la confiance de l'almâmi, le chef suprême de ce royaume théocratique."

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"Genres littéraires"
"Verhalend proza"
"History"@en
"History"
"Roman guinéen de langue française"
"Fiction"@en
"Fiction"

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"Ông hoàng xứ Kahel : tiểu thuyết"
"Il re di Kahel"@it
"Le roi de Kahel roman"
"Le roi de Kahel : Roman"
"The King of Kahel"@en
"Le roi de Kahel"
"Le Roi de Kahel : Roman"
"Le roi de Kahel : roman, [prix Renaudot 2008]"
"Le Roi de Kahel"
"Le roi de Kahel : roman"
"Il Re di Kahel"

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