The age of independence in Ahmadou Kourouma’s work

Abstract

The Ivorian writer Ahmadou Kourouma (1927-2003) addresses the theme of African colonization and the dawn of independence in The Suns of Independence, a novel published in 1968. Starting from the social context of the Ivory Coast of the 1960s, the author creates a fictional work that allows us a glimpse of its postcolonial universe through the evolution of the character Fama, a Horodougou prince stripped of his title, his property and his dignity. We intend to observe in this article how the process of colonization and independence in the Ivory Coast took place and to consider the question of the degradation of Malinké tradition in the era of independence, from the perspective presented by Ahmadou Kourouma in the novel.