Why has African culture not succeeded in successfully opposing European culture?
Because culture goes hand in hand with the power of the State. Europeans are stronger – they colonised us. They have developed a good deal more means and African culture has been forced to follow European culture. In your novel, En attendant le vote des btes sauvages you characterise the prototypical African dictator. Why are African politicians so obsessed with power? They were fascinated by power, but that was during the cold war. At that time, the West supported those in power, letting them get away with everything, and they were free to do what they liked. This doesn’t just apply to Africa; it’s the international context that created these dictators. Is this a consequence of patriarchal society, or the patriarchal structure of traditional societies in Africa? Yes. In Africa, traditional society still exists. It’s disappearing but in any case, the dictators used African society to do whatever they wanted. Your way of Africanising the French language has been interpreted by Madeleine
