"Dark Lagoon" by Antoine Glaser: Françafrique, quite a novel
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Journalist Antoine Glaser sets the plot of his crime novel "Sombre Lagune" on the shores of the Ebrié Lagoon in Abidjan (Ivory Coast). PANAPRESS/MAXPPP
As editor of the highly informed publication La lettre du continent , Antoine Glaser has long reported on the turpitudes of Françafrique. Today, the journalist recounts independence through other means, that of fiction.
In this gripping thriller, the author recounts the solitary struggle of an "honorable correspondent," in other words, a man working freelance for the French secret services. And what better setting for this than the shores of the Ebrié Lagoon in Abidjan? The "eldest daughter" of Françafrique, Félix Houphouët-Boigny's Ivory Coast was for a long time the closest former colony to Paris, the one where aid workers—civilians and military—felt "at home."
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