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Comrade Papa

By GauZ’, translated by Frank Wynne

This funny, ebullient tale of French colonial exploitation of Ivory Coast tells two alternating stories. In the late 19th century, a young man joins a colonial expedition, caught between self-styled “Negrophiles” and “Negrophobes” as he experiences his own bumpy personal voyage of discovery. Meanwhile, a century later,

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