The Night of Imoko

Portraits and scenes of life take, under the pen of Boubacar Boris Diop, the form of a rendezvous with history. A simple and true look at people and things. Conceived between 1998 and 2012, the short stories gathered in La nuit de l'Imoko testify to the coherence of the literary universe of the Senegalese writer. Beyond the rout of African societies, he shows the torments of beings adrift, trapped in their delusions. Far from any vain luxuriance, these stories without embellishment or artifice are those of a lucid and disillusioned observer of our time.