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Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by spoilt(f): 3:38am On Dec 31, 2009 |
How come I'm just seeing this thread? . Thanks Ndipe for an informative thread. Anyway I read African child when I was very young and I loved it. How come such books are no longer written? the likes of so long a letter, toads for supper, Arrow of God, Second class citizen and the slave girl? anyway so he took a second wife while His beloved Marie was in prison? [s]How come men always have to go and spoil a love story[/s]? I read that book a thousand times I think. It was a good book. I really should go on amazon or something and order all the African series again for my library. Im tired of people like paris hilton publishing books and calling themselves authors ! |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by Nobody: 7:51am On Dec 31, 2009 |
I can understand Marie's anger and disappointment, but the man was ill and had children to take care of. I'd rather he married the lady to provide constant care for him, and a stable environment for the kids, cos otherwise he'd have to change helps every few months. She for try calm down. If her church didn't excommunicate her when she married a muslim, it was irrelevant at that point as well. |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by spoilt(f): 2:43am On Jan 01, 2010 |
Excuse me but the purpose of marriage is not to quickly find a woman to look after a sick man and his gang of kids. What a life for a new bride. Glorified housegirl. |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by Unamaka: 11:59am On Feb 09, 2010 |
I've actually read Camara's dark child.I've also read the brief of SADDEST LOVE STORY.I'm really depressed.Just his fate, |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by rapcy(m): 8:34am On Jun 03, 2013 |
I read it while I was in jss1... along with "A Dream Of Africa" It's really a sad love story. .. |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by McSterling(m): 4:06pm On Jun 25, 2015 |
Ndipe:How true @bolded. I've always been curious about what happened afterwards between Laye and Marie since I read the book. The African Child is one of the finest autobiographies I have ever read. Its idyllic world of a child I found so magnetic. I wished to be in it. 1 Like |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by Ndipe(m): 2:35am On Jun 30, 2015 |
You can read more about them in the sequel, "A dream of Africa," where he marries Marie immediately after arriving home from France. This book, "The writings of Camara Laye" by Adele King which was published posthumously in 1980 was where I first read about them not long after reading "The African Child." |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by BLS1: 1:36pm On Mar 29, 2016 |
Ndipe: What a wonderful thread and God bless you for bringing this wonderful story back to life, for me at least. 1 Like |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by Ndipe(m): 3:14am On Mar 31, 2016 |
BLS1: Amen! Some people have expressed the same sentiments on the board as you may have read and several have contacted me on Yahoo messenger about it too. I even got an email from a Cameroonian who lives in France about this topic. Well, like I wrote, I read "The African Child" during my teenage years. Never ever thought I will know about this couple. So, how I stumbled upon "The Writings of Camara Laye" by Adele King, seemed a bit incredible, but true. When I saw it at my friend's place just lying there (we were classmates and he was a day-student while I was visiting him from boarding house) at his house, I think my first reaction was "What is this book doing here?" Then I read the story. Indeed, it was nice at first, the story of the son of a blacksmith falling in love and and eventually marrying the daughter of a medical doctor (her father was half-french). I became engrossed in the story till I flipped to the last page and read of their divorce. What came on my mind was, "Is there a force in the universe that is responsible for breaking up love stories?" Because some of them for unexplainable reasons always have sad endings. There is a footnote in that book that talks of how his grandfather saved the life of Toure's grandfather (I have forgotten the details). |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by Farima9: 9:10pm On Jun 05, 2016 |
Ok, I don't have much, but I'm the grand daughter of Yoro Diarra. Marie was in the camp with my grandfather and was his last wife upon his death in 2000. She's still living in Guinea. 1 Like |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by Farima9: 9:15pm On Jun 05, 2016 |
She married my grandfather, Yoro Diarra. They met in that horrible camp. He passed in 2000, but she's still living in Guinea. She was his 3rd wife. 1 Like |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by Ndipe(m): 2:08am On Jun 07, 2016 |
Wao, the popularity of Nairaland extends to Guinea as well. How are you doing, Farima? It's nice to read that Marie is still alive. She is truly blessed. Akanimo@yahoo.com is my email. |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by bitchcrafts: 2:50am On Jun 07, 2016 |
I read part of this book some eight years back only to stop at the point where Laye gained admission into an higher school of learning... Father preparing him Quran concoctions... had a brief romance or so it was with a 'foreign girl'?... Blablabla?... Damn, my memory is falling me... I've spent the last 15mins of my life perusing gutenberg and the likes for download to no avail. I'm sort of anti hardcopy but wouldn't mind even paying to download this: My 'Africanize' yourself project... |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by Ndipe(m): 2:52am On Jun 07, 2016 |
You can order the book from Amazon.com (It's called "The Dark Child": but in Nigeria, its called "The African Child" The 'foreign' girl you are referring to is Marie who later on became his real life wife. P/S: I stumbled upon the review of Terry McMillan's new novel, "I almost forgot about you" It is a love story and the critic of the novel says, "Everybody wants a happy ending. . . " meaning everybody wants a love story to have a happy ending. |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by bitchcrafts: 3:00am On Jun 07, 2016 |
Wow! I'm getting the 'diary' then... Amazon, have some dollars!! 1 Like |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by Fingerprinter(m): 10:39am On Oct 06, 2016 |
Wow, thanks for bringing this here. When I read that book, I thought their love was just a teenage thing that would end once they go their different ways. I never knew they got married. And reading the circumstances leading to their divorce is also very sad. Why haven't Africa been able to get it right in terms of leaders? Please @ndipe, if you have the soft copy of the sequel to african child, would you mind sending me a copy via mail? 1 Like |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by Ndipe(m): 4:32am On Oct 07, 2016 |
Fingerprinter: You can order the sequel, "A dream of Africa," from Amazon.com and have it shipped to you, that is if you live abroad, or you can have friends/relatives who live abroad to do so for you. Best wishes. |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by Nobody: 10:47am On Oct 13, 2016 |
I read this book growing up with books by Ngugi wa thiongo and I can say both writer were and are the best classic African authors we have around. I read the African child again today and that made me start wondering what happened to Maria. It's painful they had a sad ending.. what about 'fanta' the local girl he had.? Cc: ndipe |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by Ndipe(m): 9:08pm On Oct 14, 2016 |
tobimillar: No clue, there is no mention of her in the sequel, "A dream of Africa." Rather, he writes of his marriage to Marie which occurred the very day he returned home from France, a trip he undertook in "The African Child." |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by chigoizie7(m): 10:04pm On Oct 14, 2016 |
And u called this love? This should be in politics section |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by tyokunbo(m): 7:26am On Oct 15, 2016 |
great post! 2 Likes |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by Oahray: 8:43am On Oct 15, 2016 |
I loved this book! One of the few autobiographies I've ever loved (another was Black Boy). This end to his tale with Marie is just sad. The Camara guy sef... I liked Fanta. He didn't 'worship' her looks with his description the way he did Marie's but I liked Fanta more. After all the Fanta drama, I didn't like that he just meets Marie, and is swept off his feet. So he married her and then married another person because she got locked up. My guy no try. 1 Like |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by Ndipe(m): 1:29am On Oct 20, 2016 |
chigoizie7: How so? It's a love story, not a political story. |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by Despirado121(m): 8:25am On Dec 03, 2017 |
Ndipe:oopps! I'm totally dumbfounded. This is too great! I dont even knw where to start from. God bless u for mentioning me. I'll look for d saddest love story but let me start the african child afresh 1 Like |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by Ndipe(m): 12:17am On Nov 17, 2018 |
Sekou Toure's son, Mohammed, and his wife, Denise, were arrested (and imprisoned briefly) by the US Government due to allegations of forced child labor. They were accused of bringing a young Guinean girl from their home country, Guinea, to the US where she lived with them in Texas. According to the report, the girl was physically and mentally abused by the pair, wasnt allowed to go to school and was forced to work from sunrise to sunset, until she finally escaped recently. The accused couple denied the allegations with Mohamed telling the US government officials that he was planning on adopting her. On account of that, he was indicted for making this false claim of adopting the girl so their passports have been seized to prevent them from leaving the country. If convicted, the pair would spend a long time in prison. https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-worth/article218681600.html |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by delvinho: 4:00am On Feb 07, 2019 |
Ndipe: Read his books while growing up! The guardian of the world and others, the African child included. 1 Like |
Re: Saddest Love Story: Camara Laye And Marie by Ndipe(m): 12:41am On Mar 12, 2019 |
Sekou Toure's son, Mohamed, and his wife, Denise, were recently found guilty of forced child labor in Texas. If convicted, they face upto 20 years in prison. https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-worth/article224238625.html 1 Like |
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