A Season in the Congo
by:
Aimé Césaire (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781905422944 (1905422946)
Publish date: December 15th 2010
Publisher: Seagull Books
Pages no: 158
Edition language: English
“Hear ye! Hear ye! The buffalo is wounded. He can’t do anything at all because he’s been shot. That’s why the buffalo has grown furious. Who is the buffalo? The buffalo, it’s the government of the Belgians and the Flemish.” - A Season in the Congo, Aimé Césaire Aimé Césaire is a writer from Martini...
We just saw the Young Vic production of A Season in the Congo, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, and like Darryl I am blown away. It is a fantastic piece of theater, which effortlessly manages to be several things at once: a biopic of Patrice Lumumba's life, a modern version of a Shakespearian tragedy, a m...