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In the tradition of the film "City Of God", this is a novel of Africa's child soldiers, by French Africa's pre-eminent novelist. 'It is a powerful, shocking and deeply moving novel...' "Guardian"
Synopsis
Allah is not obliged to be fair about all things he does here on earth. After his mother's death he travels to Liberia to find his aunt but on the way gets caught up in rebel fighting and ends up with a Kalashnikov in his hands.