“It was my uncle who had me understand the importance of this day. The Independence Day.

In a country where everything was an excuse to party, he explained to me that our country had once been occupied by white people who arrived here by accident on ships whose sails had been pushed by the tropical winds toward the African coast. The white people then began systematically scaring our coastland and even our inland regions, stealing people and selling them as slaves. That’s why there’re are blacks in the United States today and white Cassius Clay alias Muhammad Ali was born in Louisville, Kentucky and not in Porto Pointe-Noire, a neighborhood of Brazaville in the Congo”.

Emmanuel Dongala es autor de novelas, cuenta cuentos y químico congoleño. Estudió en EE.UU enseñó en la Universidad de Brazzaville.

”Little boys come from de stars” es la historia de África contada desde la perspectiva de un narrador de 16 años que hace eco en la conciencia colectiva de la historia de África. Para escuchar alguno de los fragmentos de esta obra, da click a continuación.