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Segu (Ségou #1)

Maryse Condé

Paperback | Pages: 512 pages

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Title	:	Segu (Ségou #1)
Author	:	Maryse Condé
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 512 pages
Published	:	September 1st 1996 by Penguin Books (first published 1984)
Categories	:	Cultural. Africa. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. France

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The year is 1797, and the kingdom of Segu is flourishing, fed by the wealth of its noblemen and the power of its warriors. The people of Segu, the Bambara, are guided by their griots and priests; their lives are ruled by the elements. But even their soothsayers can only hint at the changes to come, for the battle of the soul of Africa has begun. From the east comes a new religion, Islam, and from the West, the slave trade. Segu follows the life of Dousika Traore, the king’s most trusted advisor, and his four sons, whose fates embody the forces tearing at the fabric of the nation. There is Tiekoro, who renounces his people’s religion and embraces Islam; Siga, who defends tradition, but becomes a merchant; Naba, who is kidnapped by slave traders; and Malobali, who becomes a mercenary and halfhearted Christian.

Based on actual events, Segu transports the reader to a fascinating time in history, capturing the earthy spirituality, religious fervor, and violent nature of a people and a growing nation trying to cope with jihads, national rivalries, racism, amid the vagaries of commerce.

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Original Title:	Ségou. Les murailles de terre
ISBN:	014025949X (ISBN13: 9780140259490)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Ségou #1
Setting:	Mali Segu,1797

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...I think this was the fourth time I've read this book and I still think it is an amazing read. It is one of the few novels I'm aware of that shows us an African society from the inside and succeeds in making it believable. Condé has obviously put in a lot of research into the history, culture and customs of Ségou and the result is a very good historical novel. It's a book that will make the reader a lot more aware of the fact that slave trade, religious fanaticism and colonialism left their

How did I ever study African literature without ever having heard of 'Segu?' I will never know. I am ashamed of myself. Maryse Conde was the winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize for Literature during the year that the Nobel Prize was wrapped in scandal. Her works are luminous and as I read more of her through the course of reading this book, I was more in love. A sweeping historical saga, 'Segu' is a must for anyone who has even the remotest interest in Africa. Or for that matter, in reading.

I'm on page 33 and it's taken me until now getting a sense of what the book is about. This is historical fiction and I wanted to read about African kingdoms near the dawn of the trans Atlantic slave trade. Though I'm just near the beginning; the author has already rolled out the usual suspects of treachery,avarice and jealousy at work to tear at the kingdoms as they are now at work tearing up some of our communities.Well I'm half way through the book now. Just as I was going to cart this book

When I picked up Segu it was quite by accident. This forum I contribute to, the World Literature Forum, has been trying to guess who would win this year's Nobel Prize since the middle of summer. It is one of the conversations that, year-after-year, brings out dozens of contributors and hundreds of responses. Conde's name popped up once or twice, as, apparently, the French literary press was promoting her as a potential recipient prior to Modiano coming away with a win last year. And then, a few

There seems to be a trend or a desire to look at Africa certain ways. In one part, it seems (at least in American news eyes) to see it as a one big country. In another, it seems like it has now and colonization and thats it. When one reads about the exploration of Africa, it is with a Western center, and little about the people who actually live there. In many ways Condes novel Segu does much to attack this perception. Segu takes place in a fading (a real kingdom) and chronicles a family whose

A fabulous novel about a Bambara family living in the kingdom of Segu from 1787, prominent in it's time, however the father falls out of favour with the King and his son's each go off in search of adventure outside the kingdom, where they discover quite a different perception of their people and their race.It shines a light on the impact of cross tribal marriage and partnership, of slavery, both that perpetuated by the Europeans and also from within the African continent. The role of the son and