'J'irai danser sur la tombe de Senghor' by Blaise Ndala

Ten years after its first publication, here is Blaise Ndala's novel which revisits the "fight of the century" between Mohamed Ali and George Foreman in 1974 in Zaire.


 As Kinshasa prepares to host the match, young Modero leaves his village in the south of the country to join the capital, an urban jungle of rumba and musical celebrations.


'J'irai danser sur la tombe de Senghor' (literally: I will dance on Senghor's grave) intertwines the two stories in a thrilling narrative where we discover the behind-the-scenes of a legendary match, the political stakes within Africa (between the icons Léopold Sédar Senghor and Mobutu Sese Seko).