Pierre Eyenga

Research

From Insolent Fratricide to Outrageous Genocide: Interethnic War and the Exorcisation of the Injustice of War in Eugène Ebodé& Souveraine Magnifique

Article January 1, 1970

The war between the Longs and the Shorts is the backdrop for Eugène Ebodé’s Sovereign Magnificent. Told through the eyes of the eponymous character, Souveraine Magnifique, an orphan from the Longs’ ethnic group, she recounts the alarming circumstances of an atrocious war that sprang up between brothers of the same blood in the heart of […]