Mamba Point Blues | Christophe Naigeon

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Mamba Point Blues

Christophe Naigeon

Release date : 26/08/2021

From the French trenches to the beautiful and perilous Africa, via the American jazz scene, and Paris in the heyday of music hall, Jules, like a new Forrest Gump in search of a meaning to his life, will gradually become, through his encounters and travels, a recognized artist, then a diplomat and a spy, forever holding his lost love, Sigrid, in his heart.

September 1918: Jules Canot, a young Senegalese and brilliant drummer, performer of the Hellfighters, a battalion of black American soldiers, suffocates at the bottom of a shell hole in the trenches. The music of his heart beats to the rhythm of the drums of Goree Island. He is rescued by... September 1918: Jules Canot, a young Senegalese and brilliant drummer, performer of the Hellfighters, a battalion of black American soldiers, suffocates at the bottom of a shell hole in the trenches. The music of his heart beats to the rhythm of the drums of Goree Island. He is rescued by three soldier musicians at the last minute. Then comes the armistice. He goes with his battalion to a village in Eastern France. Alas, the fighters’ triumphant return is short-lived as Jules must in turn abandon Sigrid. The wife of a barely alive soldier, the Alsatian woman has breathed indestructible love into his soul. These are the first bars of this great romantic fresco going from one world war to the next and spreading over three continents, combining three powerful stories. That of the destiny of Black America: the Blacks’ struggle, the emancipation of women, Harlem… embodied by Diane, Jules' distant cousin. That of a book, the Memoirs of Julius Washington, written by our two heroes’ grandfather, a polemical essay that tells the story of Liberia’s founding and condemns the behavior of Black Americans who followed the back-to-Africa movement in the nineteenth century. At that time, behaving like the whites of America, they forced the natives into slavery. And the cultural and political history of the bonds between Europe, the United States and Africa.

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