Safari Djema - NEWS LETTER

N°3 of November 22, 1999

Some works in French (éd. Harmattan)

Poetry
  • Anthologie d'introduction à la poésie comorienne d'expression française, de Carole Beckett

    History

  • Comores : quatre îles entre pirate et planteurs (tome 1 et 2), de Jean Martin
  • Les Comores, par A Gevrey, procureur impérial à Pondichery en 1870 (éd. du Baobab)
  • L'éloquence comorienne au secours de la révolution (discours d'Ali Soilihi), de Michel Lafon

    Tales

  • Contes des Iles de la Lune, d'Abdallah Said
  • Contes de ma Grand-Mère, de Salim Hatubou

    Novels

  • La république des imberbes, de Mohamed A. Toihiri
  • Le sang de l'obéissance, de Salim Hatubou
  • Le kafir du Karthala, de Mohamed A. Toihiri
  • Un coin de voile sur les Comores, de Hamza Soilhaboub
Indications
  • It was said that she had capacities of a guerissor. Then, when there news of her arrival was propagated, of the four corners of the island, have consulted her.

    - She knows calmed them agitated, one affirmed, - yes, but above all she look after the unpleasant wounds, another says. - Me, I come for a friend... it appears that she rectify more tired Moslems, added one grandfather,

    -...? - yes, finally you see what I want to say, -... - ah... it is true, me also, one friend asked me to get information on this subject, another old man confirmed.

  • God changed rice trampled out of sand. Wasters perished choked and the village disappeared .
  • In coconut straw or wool invaluable, its speed is the same one and you will go always also far.
  • Some djinns are of temperament coleric and jealous. Passion of Soulaïmane for this woman made them furious. One of them proposed to draw the attention of prophet on the hairs which gachaient a little there beauty of the legs of Bilqîs. But Soulaïmane invented an ointment to withdraw them. Then a great debate began on the best way of breaking the charm which linked them Master with the beautiful princess: " It is necessary to strike where that hurt! - That let us can destroy itself to make Soulé (they called it in intimacy) angry - It offered the Name of God to her, it is inadmissible! one of them recalled, less disrespectful but much more malignant.

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