Jocelyn Danga Signs a Striking First Novel

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With Born on dandelions, Jocelyn Danga signs a first incisive novel between Kinshasa and Metz. A path of decay and resistance, carried by a lively language, that questions dignity, exile and contemporary social fractures. In the streets of Kinshasa, the rain does not announce anything good. Muntu, professor of philosophy, goes to his high school as every morning. But the rooms are empty. The absence of the pupils acts as a revealing: that of a b…