The Dogear

Ambiguous Adventure

by Cheikh Hamidou Kane

1963

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Set in 2 places · 1 primary
Sense of Place
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Set in

  • ★
    Senegal · Senegal
    The Diallobé region of Senegal where devout Koranic student Samba Diallo grows up before being sent to Paris
    ★ primary
  • Paris · France
    Where Samba Diallo studies philosophy and loses his connection to Islamic faith — a crisis of colonial identity

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