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Alain Mabanckou: Black Moses [2017] paperback BIOGR 'A vivid account of aLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 It's 1970, and in the People's Republic of Congo a Marxist Leninist revolution is ushering in a new age. But over at the orphanage on the outskirts of Pointe Noire where young Moses has grown up, the revolution has only strengthened the reign of terror of Dieudonne Ngoulmoumako, the institution's corrupt director. So Moses escapes to Pointe Noire, where he finds a home with a larcenous band of
