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This novel,a classic of African literature, still speaks to us today. We look back at Africa’s grotesques like Idi Amin of Uganda, Bokassa of the Central African Empire or Zaire’s Mobutu, but now we must also look around us at comic opera heads of state posturing extravagantly on our domestic stages. We need this cleansing laughter.
“Is the funny bone a literary erogenous zone? Anyone who thinks so will certainly be turned on by Henri Lopes’ The Laughing Cry . . . this writer has the same feel for the literary burlesque that Woody Allen has for the philosophical kvetch.” —San Francisco Examiner
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"Is the funny bone a literary erogenous zone? Anyone who thinks so will certainly be turned on by Henri Lopes' The Laughing Cry . . . this writer has the same feel for the literary burlesque that Woody Allen has for the
philosophical kvetch." --San Francisco Examiner
"Satirical, tender, bawdy, savage, and fi lled with love and hope." --The Washington Post
"Mr Lopes has both the experience to give his work its grounding in reality and suffi cient distance to give his contempt its cutting edge." --New York Times Book Review
"Beaumarchais . . . Diderot . . . what on earth, you may ask, has the eighteenth century got to do with a political satire about contemporary Africa? . . . Lopes' satirical style, with its mixture of ribaldry and cruelty, does hark back to the forthright age of Swift and Voltaire." --BBC World Service Book Talks
"Superb book . . . done in fluent translation." --Publishers' Weekly
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Satirizes African politics through the story of the adventures of the dictator Marshal Hannibal-Ideloy Bwakamabe Na Sakkade.
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