Crispy Stories in the Tropics: Histoires Croustillantes Sous Les Tropiques

About the Book

Many of these stories revolve around the forbidden fruit and the conquering of another’s heart by using a fetish, making him helplessly captivated. There are numerous stories of jealousy, envy, and other natural phenomena. The reader will find some samples of those in this book. Traditionally, a lot of ink, saliva, and even tears have been poured about sex, especially when it is about guilty relations between two lovers, relationships in which at least one of the parties is officially recognized as in a relationship or married to another person. These relationships are commonly and humorously referred to as “forbidden fruit” by analogy to the legend of the Garden of Eden.

About the Author

Dinkala Simon was born in a village in the Belgian Congo on March 3, 1953. When he was a child, everyone talked about his storytelling and comedic talents. He started making people laugh by telling, in his own way and with particular originality, a story that all his listeners had yet participated or witnessed. It was said of him that he would have written the gospel if he had wanted to, without having been part of the story. Has that influenced his choice for studying psychology and development at the university? We find traces of this in his adventure as a writer, musician, and filmmaker. He even led this with passion as soon as he entered what he himself called the “third age,” the age of deep conception. Literature, travel, and various family, social, and professional experiences, including in the Congolese and Canadian public administrations and in the United Nations System, have contributed to this. Just in this first volume, Simon Dinkala already gives us a peek of what to expect on the second volume for juicier stories.