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Original Title:	Allah n'est pas obligé
ISBN:	030727957X (ISBN13: 9780307279576)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Prix Renaudot (2000), Prix Goncourt des Lycéens (2000), French-American Foundation Translation Prize Nominee for Fiction (2007), Prix Amerigo Vespucci (2000), Premio Grinzane Cavour Nominee for Narrativa Straniera (2003)

Allah is Not Obliged

Ahmadou Kourouma

Paperback | Pages: 215 pages

Rating: 3.69 | 1334 Users | 153 Reviews

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Title	:	Allah is Not Obliged
Author	:	Ahmadou Kourouma
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 215 pages
Published	:	May 8th 2007 by Anchor Books (first published August 12th 2000)
Categories	:	Cultural. Africa. Fiction. Western Africa. Ivory Coast. France. Literature. African Literature

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ALLAH IS NOT OBLIGED TO BE FAIR ABOUT ALL THE THINGS HE DOES HERE ON EARTH.These are the words of the boy soldier Birahima in the final masterpiece by one of Africa's most celebrated writers, Ahmadou Kourouma. When ten-year-old Birahima's mother dies, he leaves his native village in the Ivory Coast, accompanied by the sorcerer and cook Yacouba, to search for his aunt Mahan. Crossing the border into Liberia, they are seized by rebels and forced into military service. Birahima is given a Kalashnikov, minimal rations of food, a small supply of dope and a tiny wage. Fighting in a chaotic civil war alongside many other boys, Birahima sees death, torture, dismemberment and madness but somehow manages to retain his own sanity. Raw and unforgettable, despairing yet filled with laughter, Allah Is Not Obliged reveals the ways in which children's innocence and youth are compromised by war.

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This is a horrific story. The violence is told in a matter of fact way with no apologies and little sympathy.But you cannot ignore the fact that this book is simply not well written, on account of it being written by a 10 year old that may actually be 11...The story is told by this supposed child "on account that I'm only a kid" he makes a few mistakes and uses a dictionary, a lot. One minute he is explaining what single file is and pooh pooh pee peeing and then he is talking about indigenes and

Having read books like Johnny the Mad Dog (Emmanuel Dongala) and Good Morning Comrades (Ondjaki) about war from the perspective of children I still found this different. It was different in how it told stories of how Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Cote d`Ivoire played key roles in the wars of Liberia and Sierra Leone. I did laugh out once in the book and did shed a tear on page 165 when he started talking about the amputation of arms to stop people from voting. Anyway

The monotony and repetition can be tedious at times but makes for a nice foil against the chaos and uncertainty of Tribal warfare in west Africa

The story is totally different from anything I read before. The narrator is Birahima a 10 year old kid from Cote DIvoire who becomes a child soldier thanks to tribal wars in west Africa.What were you doing when you were 10 years old?I liked that the novel took me back in time and in space to real life events happening in a very unfortunate part of the same planet I am living on. Then and there, coup détat were very common, instability is the common theme and child soldiers carry Kalashnikovs

The intriguing title drew me in and the amazing tale of a child's journey from a trusting childhood in poverty-ridden west africa to a boy soldier, seen thru the eyes of innocence, kept me going. Throw in a a generous helping of the ....... of dictators across central africa and .... and i was completely hooked.

The voice of "Allah is Not Obliged" flaunts the promise of an iconoclastic, irreverent narrator and instead devolves into Sierra Leone and Liberian history with the thinnest thread of violence and displacement woven throughout. The child solider narrator glamorizes his life without ever delving deeper than mentioning what get gets to eat, over-using repetition in an allusion to West African oral history, and somehow at the end we get a 60+ page overview of regional conflicts. Close, but no.

As the books young narrator tells it, the full title of this book is Allah is not obliged to be fair about all the things he does here on earth. Birahima should know at the age of ten or twelve (his grandmother seems to think hes two years younger than his mother told him he was), he is an orphan and has fought as a child-soldier for several different warlords. He tells his story using the help of four different dictionaries that have come into his possession, and the book is peppered with the