Djaïli Amadou Amal’s autobiographical account of her Arab and Fulani origins. Everything she has never said and everything her fans want to know.
Who is Djaïli Amadou Amal? Where does she come from? What has her journey been? From her youth to her forced marriage, Djaïli Amadou Amal examines her origins, her upbringing, the joys and ordeals that have made her the award-winning woman writer and activist she is today.
Her dual culture, Arab and Fulani, Egyptian and Cameroonian; interethnic and interfamily racism; the weight of contradictory traditions; her parents’ love and their life choices; the extended family; forced marriage… She has a gift for storytelling, knows how to create dramatic effect, doesn’t hold back on humor, and makes us all complicit in her story.
Espoir is the text we were waiting for after Les Impatientes, a novel without fiction.
