Trop De Soleil tue L’amour et en Attendant Le Vote Des Betes Sauvages: Deux Extremes, Un Bilan Des Transitions Democratiques En Afrique

Abstract

This article examines the exercise of power in two novels by Beti and Kourouma highlighting a highly fragmented political landscape whose tiny components act independently. This transfiguration marks a break between both novels and other works by the same authors, thus establishing an “unexpected” similarity between two writers who have never been considered as ideologically close. By reviewing the African political scene in the light of the new geo-strategic order ushered in by the collapse of the Berlin Wall, these novels are a turning point in African fiction writing.