Doguicimi: The First Dahomean Novel (1937) by Paul Hazoume

Doguicimi: The First Dahomean Novel (1937)

Paul Hazoume

387 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

fiction adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced
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Paul Hazoume was a staunch supporter of French colonialism. This novel, set in Dahomey in the first half of the 19th century, depicts a pattern of war, slave trade and human sacrifice - practices that earned Dahomey a reputation for brutality.

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