Is it enough to be black to be brothers? What do a West Indian, a Senegalese and a Black born in Paris have in common, if not the color to which they complain of being reduced? And the genealogy they have forged, that of unhappiness and humiliation (slavery, colonization, immigration) ... In this essay, Alain Mabanckou refuses to define black identity with tears and resentment.
Alain Mabanckou is an essayist, poet and novelist. In 2015, he was professor of artistic creation at the Collège de France. He is notably the author of Petit Piment, Lumières de Pointe-Noire and Le monde est mon langue .
"A text that ignores all politically correct."