POURQUOI TU DANSES QUAND TU MARCHES ?
Author: WABERI A A.
Publisher: LATTES
ISBN: 9782709665568
Publication Date: August 21, 2019
Description: Résumé :Un matin sur le chemin de l'école maternelle à Paris une petite fille interroge son père : Dis papa pourquoi tu danses quand tu marches ? . La question est innocente et grave. Pourquoi son père boite-t-il pourquoi ne fait-il pas de vélo de trottinette... ? Le père ne peut pas se dérober. Il faut raconter ce qui est arrivé à sa jambe réveiller les souvenirs retourner à Djibouti au quartier du Château d'eau au pays de l'enfance.Dans ce pays de lumière et de poussière où la maladie les fièvres d'abord puis cette jambe qui ne voulait plus tenir l'ont rendu différent unique. Il était le gringalet et l'avorton mais aussi le meilleur élève de l'école le préféré de Madame Annick son institutrice venue de France un lecteur insatiable le roi des dissertations. Abdourahman Waberi se souvient du désert mouvant de Djibouti de la mer Rouge de la plage de la Siesta des maisons en tôles d'aluminium de son quartier de sa solitude immense et des figures qui l'ont marqué à jamais : Papa-la-Tige qui vendait des bibelots aux touristes sa mère Zahra tremblante dure silencieuse sa grand-mère surnommée Cochise en hommage au chef indien parce qu'elle régnait sur la famille la bonne Ladane dont il était amoureux en secret.Il raconte le drame ce moment qui a tout bouleversé le combat qu'il a engagé ensuite et qui a fait de lui un homme qui sait le prix de la poésie du silence de la liberté un homme qui danse toujours.
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United StatesA very touching memoir!
What a wonderful auto-fictional novel by Abdourahman A. Waberi : Pourquoi tu danses quand tu marches? (JC lattes, 2019) One day walking to school in Paris 5-year old Béa asks her Papa, Aden, why he dances when he walks. By “dances” she refers to his funny limp that favors his weak leg. To fully answer her, Aden must tell her the story of his childhood in Djibouti. Through his simple, soft and moving narrative he brings us all back with him to Djibouti in the late 1960s and 1970s, when the country was called TFAI, Territoire Francais Des Afars et Issas. To his Chateau d’eau neighborhood and early years in which he suffered from various illnesses, felt neglected by his distant mother, Zahra, and his father Papa Le Tige who worked late hours in his souvenir shop, and endured regular torment from Johnny the class bully. And the same childhood during which he found his passion for learning and in particular for literature and writing, encouraged by his teacher Mme Annick. And was nurtured by his Grand Mere Cochise and his Tante Dayibo, had his first crush on the beautiful housemaid Ladane. I loved the form of addressing his daughter throughout the narrative, “tu sais Bea, “…It made the sentences more personal, raised the emotional stakes. I also appreciated the honesty and historical perspective he gives. Like how Aden praises the French education he receives and opportunities it gives him, while also showing the weight of colonialism felt by ordinary people, like when when little Aden asks Tante Dayibo, seeing their loud trucks pass by, what the French legionnaires are doing in their country. She answers “parce que ce sont nos colonisateurs”. Aden doesn’t understand the word “colonisateurs” si she explains: “parce qu’ils sont plus forts que nous”. A very touching memoir! Waberi is most definitely a new favorite author!