Allah is Not Obliged by Ahmadou Kourouma

Author:Ahmadou Kourouma [Kourouma Ahmadou]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-79384-3
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

The child-soldiers—that’s us—had to go to the headquarters to have our protective grigris tested. We must have done something terrible that made the grigris ineffective: three dead in the first exchange of fire. When Yacouba had tested the grigris, he told us that the child-soldiers had violated the taboos attached to the grigris. We had violated the taboos by smoking hash. Smoking hash is a taboo during wartime when you’re wearing war grigris. I was so angry I went red in the face. Well, no … on account of blacks like me don’t go red when they’re angry, that’s only for whites. Blacks get hot and bothered. I was hot and bothered I was so angry, I was furious. Grigrimen are charlatans. (‘Charlatan’ means ‘a quack or fraud who makes elaborate claims to skill or knowledge’, according to my Larousse.) It’s the truth! According to the grigriman, three kids were dead just because we smoked hash. Coming out with bullshit like that. It was unbelievable!

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