CHAPTER THREE
AFRICANISM AND SOCIAL ORIENTATION IN CAMARA LAYE’S AFRICAN CHILD
INTRODUCTION
Camara Laye’s The African Child (1953) is a vivid and poetic evocation on Laye’s Childhood in Malinke religion on northern Guinea, and his gradual movements into the world of Western Education. He wrote the autobiography when he was studying and working in Paris, thousand of miles away from his home where he was isolated and lonely.
The African Child (1953) is a novel rooted deeply in the cultural environment of traditional Malinke society and also a narrative or a typical African experience of childhood, audience and the universal parental. Laye in this novel uses different aesthetic element such as African totemic, rice harvesting and tom-tom, ritual of passage etc.
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