Author | Maryse Condé |
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Original title | Ségou: la terre en miettes |
Translator | Linda Coverdale |
Language | French |
Publisher | Éditions Robert Laffont |
Publication date | 11 January 1985 |
Published in English |
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Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
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Preceded by | Segu: A Novel |
Followed by | I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem |
The Children of Segu ( French: Ségou: la terre en miettes, lit. Segu: The Earth in Pieces) is a French sequel to Maryse Condé's 1984 historical fiction Segu. [1] The novel follows the 19th-century tribal wars, Islamic conquests and French occupation of the African kingdom, focusing on the Traore family's further history and kins. [2] [3]