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Le lieutenant de Kouta
''フランス語:Le lieutenant de Kouta'' ("The Lieutenant of Kouta") is a 1979 novel by prize-winning〔Diabaté won the ''フランス語:Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire'' for ''Janjon'' in 1971. http://www.howard.edu/library/afrolit2.htm〕 Malian author Massa Makan Diabaté. Loosely based on the author's hometown of Kita, Mali,〔McGuire, James R. "Narrating Mande Heroism in the Malian novel: Negotiating Postcolonial Identity in Diabaté's ''Le boucher de Kouta''. ''Research in African Literatures'' 24.3 (1993): 35-57. p. 49.〕 the novel tells the story of a recently returned lieutenant from the French Colonial Army, Siriman Keita, and his struggle to adjust to his village's changing customs. It is the first book in Diabaté's "Kouta trilogy," followed by ''フランス語:Le coiffeur de Kouta'' ("The Barber of Kouta," 1980) and ''フランス語:Le boucher de Kouta'' ("The Butcher of Kouta," 1982), which feature many of the same characters.
== Plot ==
Lieutenant Siriman Keita has returned from a long service in the French Colonial Army (during which he was awarded the Croix de guerre) to Kouta, a market village near his smaller home village of Kouroula. In Kouta, he at first plots to ascend to the canton chiefdom while avoiding his envious older brother, Faganda. However, his plans are scrapped when he humiliates himself in a horse-riding accident before the village, and he withdraws to his fortress-like "square house." After a time, he adopts a fatherless boy who he had once punished for stealing, and marries Awa, a Senegalese woman of questionable reputation. Disaster strikes the lieutenant again, however, when the French commandant incites him to lead a punitive expedition against the pro-independence village of Woudi. When the expedition fails, the lieutenant is stripped and humiliated before the people of Kouta and, after the commandant denies his own involvement, is sent to jail in the country's capital for disturbing the peace. He returns to find Awa pregnant by a young pro-independence activist, but having changed during his incarceration, the lieutenant forgives her betrayal and adopts the coming child as his own. He reconciles with the imam of the local mosque, formerly a bitter enemy, and eventually becomes the village muezzin, only to die mysteriously following an injection by his envious brother. The imam does him the honor of burying him in the mosque, while the French administrators, concerned by the example of his conversion, hastily and posthumously award him the Legion of Honour.
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