Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote [Import] [Hardcover]

Ahmadou Kourouma~Frank Wynne (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: William Heinemann (2001)
• ISBN-10: 0434008141
• ISBN-13: 978-0434008148
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.4 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,554,053 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars worth the effort, February 1, 2007

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Doris Hasslocher (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waiting for Wild Beasts to Vote (Paperback)

It took me a while to get into it, as the style is quite unusual. I found it off-putting at first, but once I got used to it, things flowed. It is a fascinating story, on the surface the life history of an African dictator, full of the expected atrocities, greed, corruption. I assume it is meant to be more globally directed at African dictators in general and gives a frightening perspective on Francophone Africa's politics. There are no characters one can really identify with, the view is too distant and objective for that, so it felt in some ways more like a work of non-fiction. If you are interested in African history or politics, this book is an excellent and unemotional expose of a certain type of governance.