days, I've felt like I've been at a real college. Thursday and Friday at BYU, we were lucky to the have the author Cheikh Hamidou Kane visit to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his book, L'aventure ambiguë. He's having three celebrations for his book-- one in Senegal (where he's from. And yes, we'll be visiting with him when we're there also :) ), one in France, and one in the USA... BYU to be specific. So cool. The author talked to us about his book, students talked to us about the book, and there were several visiting lecturers from other universities (Penn, Columbia) who came to talk about the book. It was all very philosophical and collegiate, and I loved it. Thursday night was the best, an "African Celebration" where they had a group made up of African students who perform traditional songs and dances, and at the end they had everyone get up and dance. So great.
Anyways, I admit that I haven't yet read this book (although I have a copy of it), but based on what I've heard over the past couple of days, I'd recommend it. It's a story of the clash between religion & traditional belief, and the influence of the colonization of the "western world."
So. I'll let you know what I think when I actually get to reading this book (and also I should apologize, because I hear that it's better in French than the English translation). I'm currently reading Camara Laye's L'enfant noir. It's great. I'm really excited to go to Senegal and I'm happy to be learning a little bit about their culture before I leave.
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That was quite a fun ordeal! I thought that the guests were incredible and the whole thing was very well done. I'm excited to read the book and visit the author in Senegal
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