Description
Fakourou est un village rustique ressemblant beaucoup d’autres bleds en Afrique noire; c’est l que vit le couple Taza et Mozo. Mais Taza est un poux tyrannique et violent, face Mozo, une pouse violent e et r sign e qui, se charge elle seule de l’ ducation de leur nombreuse prog niture, son partenaire tant souvent absent. Jusqu’au jour o Mozo d cide de s’en aller, abandonnant mari et enfants. Beaucoup d’eau coulera sous le pont et des v nements se seront succ d qui auront transform le village. Les habitants, tenaill’s par la faim et la mis re se muent en pr dateurs pour les villages voisins: razzias, bagarres, vols, viols et enl vements des filles et de biens taient devenus les principales activit’s des hommes de Fakourou. C’est alors que leurs a eux d’outre -tombe r apparaissent et menacent le village par des ph nom nes surnaturels afin qu’il revienne sur le droit chemin. Dans ce processus de transformation, Taza est d sign chef de village et sa femme Mozo lui pardonne. Mais apr’s plus ann es de r gne, Taza est mis dans un tat de semi -mort par les a eux qui le soumettent un proc’s sur sa gouvernance. Apr’s quoi, il sort de sa l thargie avec pour mission de repartir au village pr sider la d signation d’un rempla ant id al avant qu’il ne meur e d finitivement. Une v ritable balade dans les m andres de la tradition, du modernisme, du f tichisme, du syncr tisme entre tradition et religions r v l es…
Fakourou is a rustic village resembling many other villages in sub-Saharan Africa; this is where the couple Taza and Mozo live. But Taza is a tyrannical and violent husband, opposite Mozo, an abused and resigned wife who takes sole responsibility for the education of their numerous offspring, her partner being often absent. Until the day Mozo decides to leave, abandoning his husband and children. Much water will flow under the bridge and events will have followed that will have transformed the village. The inhabitants, gripped by hunger and poverty, turn into predators for the neighboring villages: raids, fights, thefts, rapes and kidnappings of girls and goods had become the main activities of the men of Fakourou. It is then that their ancestors from beyond the grave reappear and threaten the village with supernatural phenomena so that it returns to the right path. In this process of transformation, Taza is appointed village chief and his wife Mozo forgives him. But after more years of reign, Taza is put in a state of semi-death by the ancestors who subject him to a trial on his governance. After which, he emerges from his lethargy with the mission of returning to the village to preside over the designation of an ideal replacement before he dies definitively. A true stroll through the meanders of tradition, modernism, fetishism, syncretism between tradition and revealed religions…
