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Cannibal Marseille - Didier Pereira Daeninckx

Quote: "What right do you put birds in cages?
What right do you remove these singers groves?
The sources at dawn, the sweat, the winds?
What right do you fly these live life? " Victor Hugo

Introductory Note: The Noumea Accords signed in 1998, formalized the word Kanak and made invariable, emphasizing the dimension of the colonial and paternalistic term customary Kanak.

Comment: Today in New Caledonia. Two old jeep stopped by two young people who block their route. While the elderly black man asks his friend to leave white, her age is forcing young people to surrender. Over tea, while kids learn with surprise that the old white is not the enemy they believe. What happened in 1931 in Paris during the colonial exhibition ? It will explore what Whatiock Kali and listening to the story ... Gocéné

Inspired by actual events, this novel by Didier Daeninckx recounts an inglorious episode in French colonial history in the 1930s. This France that the show can entertain offered by Kanak abused, we kept some memories. This story resurrect the shameful treatment inflicted upon exposure Kanak colonial . As mere animals, they were priced at outrageous lies, exposed in cages to entertain visitors, they mimed the wild ... You could even read the sign "cannibals cannibals." Yet history shows us that the wild unlike civilized people, keep their promises. Gocémé was that of keeping a constant eye on Mino, his bride. So in defiance of danger that he, accompanied by his cousin Badimoin, goes in search of his beloved who was sent to the circus in Frankfurt to replace the crocodiles ...

sort of philosophical tale, this novel is not devoid of humor or ridicule. Taking just over a hundred pages, this misadventure Gocémé and members of her village left an indelible mark on the history of the Kanak. As announced the back cover, this story is "Perspectives revolts that were to take place half a century later in New Caledonia" . Short and easy to read, Cannibals will move readers curious about the sad past that mark the French colonial era ...

Excerpts: " You see, progress is being made: for him we are not cannibals, but only chimpanzees, eating peanuts. I'm sure when we get near the houses there, we will become men. " p.41


Edition: Folio
date: December 2009
Number of pages: 107 p.
Cover: Photo collections Serge Kabou / AKG Paris