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The Black Terrorist Kindle Edition

by Tierno Monénembo (Author), C. Dickson (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition

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The Black Terrorist is a fictional account built around the true, extraordinary, but little-known story of Addi Bâ. Addi Bâ was born in Guinea about 1916, brought to France in the late 1930s, and became a riflemen in the Twelfth Regiment de Tirailleurs Sénégalais (African soldiers from French colonies) fighting for France during World War II. Captured after the Battle of the Meuse, Addi escapes from German forces, wanders in the forests, before finding refuge in a village in the Vosges, where he encounters the French Resistance and becomes a leader of a Resistance network. However, Addi is captured, tortured, and executed in December 1943. His military exploits against the Germans earned him the name “the black terrorist.”

The story of Addi Bâ is told sixty years later from a number of perspectives, though largely from Germaine Tergoresse, who was a young girl during the war, now eighty years old relating her memories to Bâ’s nephew. But who betrayed Addi Bâ? One of its many lovers? A professional collaborator? Or just the rivalry between the Tergoresses and the Rapennes, two families who have been feuding since the First World War? This African and Muslim fighter of Free France was awarded the Medal of the Resistance in 2003, sixty years after his execution. The Black Terrorist (Le terroriste noir) was awarded the Erckmann-Chatrian Prize in 2012, and both the Palatine Grand Prize and the Ahmadou-Kourouma Prize in 2013.

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"[The Black Terrorist] is a fascinating study of resistance and race in occupied France, skillfully written and hauntingly presented.... Tierno Monénembo brings the histories of metropolitan and colonial France together, exploring the transnational and universal dimension of the French Resistance. He uses the novelist's craft to illuminate a neglected aspect of French history, in all its complexity and heartbreak.... As an historical novel, it thus succeeds admirably in bringing to life the colonial contribution to the French Resistance, and more broadly a new vision of national identity during modern France's darkest hour. By reframing our understanding of the Resistance around a colonial subject, [The Black Terrorist] forces us to rethink our ideas about what it means to be French, both during World War II and today." -Tyler Stovall, author of Black France⁄France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0764LSGFT
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Diasporic Africa Press; 1st edition (August 12, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 12, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 495 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 183 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #3,236,939 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,327 in Historical African Fiction
- #1,335 in Historical French Fiction
- #250,314 in Historical Fiction (Books)

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Carolien S

Forgotten African soldier's contribution to the French Resistance

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2019

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This is an amazing record of the contribution of soldiers from African colonies to WWII as well as the emergence of the French Resistance. Mainly written in the form of recollections by a young girl who knew him, it tells the story of the author's uncle Addi Ba's contribution to WWII. It also recounts the efforts to establish the French Resistance in the Vosges region of France and provides details of the daily lives of the population in Romaincourt. So glad I read this, a fascinating book.

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