ABSTRACT
Molvaer, R.K. (1997) Black Lions, Lawrenceville, New Jersey: Red Sea Press. REIDULF MOLVAER
Tadjo, Véronique b. 1955, Paris, France author and illustrator Véronique Tadjo, the Ivorian author and illustrator, claims the whole of
African culture as her main source of inspiration. She sees the retrieval of elements of the African precolonial past as necessary to redeveloping a social consciousness and helping the individual rediscover her/his place in space and time. In an interview with Jean-Marie Volet, she states that her writing represents a quest for an understanding of the world and human beings and for “order, logic, and meaning in the world.” The theme of love of life, of country, of the earth, and between man and woman serves as a unifying thread running
through her work, from her first book, Latérite (Red Clay) (1984), to Champs de bataille et d’amour (Fields of Battle and Love) (1999).
