Tag Archives: Ahmadou Kourouma

How Birahima Makes Sense of Necropolitics in Allah is Not Obliged

Posted on February 25, 2016 by victoriachandler

The kind of political power that Achille Mbembe describes in “Necropolitics,” is exactly the kind of power at work in Allah is Not Obliged. In his essay, Mbembe argues that political power is bound up in the power “to dictate … Continue reading →

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Repetition in Allah is Not Obliged

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Jonathan Dunn

Ahmadou Kourouma’s novel Allah is Not Obliged makes heavy use of repetition in both language and structure to underline its themes on tribal war, child soldiers, and violence in Western Africa. The story is extremely voice-driven – irreverently narrated by … Continue reading →

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Change for Thursday, and some Sozaboy secondary citations

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Anne Gulick

Tomorrow we’ll discuss the novels: I’ll be in the classroom with those who read Sozaboy, and anyone reading Allah Is Not Obliged will meet in the lounge, which I’ve reserved.  I’d like to make a slight change to our agenda … Continue reading →

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