Wow : encroyable! Des la premiere fois qu'on voit un homme blanc jusqu'au consequences malhuereux d'influence d'eux, on lit en larmes...

From the first time that we see a white man until the unfortunate consequences of their influence one reads , in tears. ( )

...Where we started the tale with a proud, independent nation, over the course of two books we see the city of Ségou decline ever further. Their absorptions into French Sudan seems inescapable. What little hope remains in this book can be found in the roots of the extended Traoré family. It is a family who have weathered all storms for almost a century. Despite religious disputes and all manner of conflict, they have managed to keep that in tact at least. Condé leaves us with a profound sense of loss at the end of the novel, where one of the charters muses on the state of the city and how he is going to lead the family though this. Although the continuing downward spiral in both books suggest an answer, it is up to the reader to decide whether or not to go along with that. Whichever way you choose to look at it, Ségou is a remarkable piece of historical fiction.

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Mooi boek, aan de hand van een familiegeschiedenis wordt de geschiedenis van een volk verteld. En hoe kleine details op bepaalde momenten je leven en dat van je nazaten bepalen. Indrukwekkend. ( )