Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals
"Carrol F. Coates's translation, Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals, introduces English-language audiences to Kourouma's irreverent view of the machinations of the African dictators who played the West against the East during the thirty years of the cold war. Profiting from Western financial support, the dictators built palaces, shrines, and hunting preserves for their personal gratifiction as they paraded about with numerous mistreses, marabouts and advisors.". "In the style of a sere wh
