} Cameroonian Herve Madaya writer and photographer George A. French Bertrand just published an illustrated book, which is a call to travel.
A writer and photographer, two cultures and talents that come together to give birth to a collection of illustrated texts. "The blue of my eyes" of the Cameroonian Herve Madaya and George A. French Bertrand has been published by Creations in France. They are, in total, 19 short texts movements accompanied 18 photographs in black and silver white.
Madaya's writings are addressed to confide in and around this invisible friend. The narrator tells the little pleasures of life, as the acrid smell of dirt after a shower. It tells the child when the barefoot and carefree run in the dusty streets of the village. But he also recounts the drama, populated with nights of crying children, nangabokos who rape young girls and child soldiers who shoot other children. The words are terrible to describe the excesses of a society in crisis: "I am twelve years, I know to do the housework, dishes, laundry and field work for a family in return [...] me may send to school one day ... "In Madaya, horror is never far "Bikissou found herself alone with her stepfather [...] He goes down his pants, takes out her sex and forced him to suck. Suck'', Bikissou! Hold it with your little hands.'' When she received the sour liquid in her mouth, she can finally throw her head back and spit on his chin. " Disgusting! A feeling that writing Madaya delicate, caressing the words that appear, fails to keep quiet.
On the front cover of the book, the writer on the darts world a melancholy look as blue as the kaba which some women are in mourning, and not hide all the passions that lie dormant in him and that had the opportunity see bubbling in his first novel, "In the Footsteps of Saer (Ifriqiyah, 2009). His pen, more than a mode of expression, is a way of being. He puts his talent, the essence of his being.
photos, or nearly all speak the same language: that of poverty, resourcefulness, hard work. The goal of George A. Bertrand, author of several books of photographs made in Arab-Muslim countries, has captured precious moments, simple and harmless in Cameroon, which he immortalized. As texts, they are intimate, filled with poetry and song.
"The blue of my eyes" invites you to travel, friendship and transcendence, at the same time he advocates a world where children will be protected and loved. Odile Tobner, widow Mongo Beti, who signed the preface, says the ruling will be terrible pseudo-elites and foreign predators, "enjoying all the trappings of power, failed to protect either them or forge a future proud and independent. "
Hervé Madaya and George A. Bertrand dédicacent their book next March in Yaoundé.
Stephanie Dongmo
Madaya Hervé (text)
George A. Bertrand (photographs)
The blue of my eyes
Publishing Create
Paris, 2010
Price: 5000Fcfa
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