5/8/2023 0 Comments Segu by Maryse Condé"This lament is understood by certain initiates as a sign that terrible events will soon come to pass." "The Children of Segu" might best be described as the author's praise song for her African heritage. It also springs from the spirits of her founders, who have watched her grow like a child born of woman, who have fought for her, and who are powerless to help her now. The cry springs from the bricks in the walls, the earth of the temples and mosques, the dust in the streets, the manure littering the stockyards, from all the intangible elements that form the city's reality. "Those who hear it believe this cry of sorrow is born of the inhabitants' distress as they huddle in their homes, bewailing their fate, but they are mistaken. $18.95END NOTES Near the end of her exhaustive narrative of 19th-century life in Segu (a city located between Bamako and Timbuktu in present-day Mali), Maryse Conde writes: "When a city prepares to die, she utters a long lament. THE CHILDREN OF SEGU By Maryse Conde Viking.
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