In the realm of the beyond: cross-border life, pan-africanism, and identity in Ahmadou Kourouma’s novels

Abstract

En raison des mouvements migratoires sans precedent qui caracterisent notre monde contemporain, les enjeux identitaires, la problematique de la frontiere et la question de l’hybridite occupent une place privilegiee dans les debats intellectuels et sociopolitiques. Jamais impermeable a ces courants socioculturels, la litterature africaine offre  un site valorise pour la reflexion sur le deplacement. Partant de la vie africaine transfrontaliere, le present article participe a ce dialogue en analysant la thematique du panafricanisme, de la deterritorialisation et de l’identite dans les romans d’Ahmadou Kourouma. Mots-cles : Ahmadou Kourouma; Panafricanisme. As a result of unprecedented migration in our contemporary world, identity-related themes, border issues, and hybridization have often occupied center-stage in academic and socio-political debates. Never insulated from these socio-cultural currents, African literature has often been a valorized site of displacement-related discourse. Using the case of cross-border life in Africa as a starting point, this paper contributes to the dialogue by analyzing Ahmadou Kourouma’s thematization of Pan-Africanism, deterritorialization, and identity. Keywords: Ahmadou Kourouma; Panafricanisme.