Words and cultures

Term account of accademic sciences session of over-seas.
TOME-LXIII-1-2-3-4-2003
Literature

Dissirama BOUTORA TAKPA author of Journal d’une bonne, little novel well written, has some skill : he knows how to provide varities of his theme : adaptation of literature to social life as will say the preface writer Guy Kokou Missodey. He has the skill to touch with the reading of well known events.
Written by a man, it depicts well(as many discreet confidences of wives let me know) the minds of young african living in the traditional world and that of modernity.
The hero Adjo(or Agathe) takes care of what happens, she does not get indignant, she doesn’t appal, she doesn’t judge, she tells simply the desire of young boys who surround her and her way(half conscent) to response.
This story of a maid(Journal d’une bonne) tends to sensitize readers, whether they are Africans or Europeans, about the fate of little maids who have lost their rights as children(in the worst conditions)and who learn social life as it is less joyful but more painful.

Anne-Marie STAMM