The “Secret Codes of Mamadou Ndala” book is surging in sales following a presentation tour in France.
Authored by a young Congolese writer Jephté Mbangala, the book was published 3 months ago but it is already getting people talking.
Colonel Mamadou Mustafa Ndala was a Congolese military officer ruthlessly killed in an ambush near Beni airport (North Kivu) on January 2, 2014.
However, several theories struggle to explain his death but have not been satisfactory.
Mbangala is presented the book at the African Book Fair in Paris, from March 15 to 17, and he will be in Brussels on March 30 and 31, before returning to Paris on April 12 for a coffee literature around this book.
“The Secret Codes of Mamadou Ndala” is making its way in due form and simultaneously boosting the already fruitful career of this talented Congolese writer who is only producing fruits worthy of making his country the DRC proud.
The book is a play, far from being the result of a journalist’s pen or an investigation which tends to reveal the truth, it is a literary fiction, in homage to a man whom the DRC still needs .
In two months, a significant number of copies have already been sold to the surprise of this author who admitted to local Congolese reporter in an exclusive interview.
Jephté Mbangala does not lose sight of making his work known in his country; dates are planned for the presentation of the book in universities in Kinshasa and in the provinces, starting in April.
Details on the dates will be known at the end of March. The discussions will broaden in the sense of taking a look at the security situation in the east of the DRC and Mamadou Ndala as a model of patriotism.
Jephté Mbangala, 23, is a Congolese writer and law student at the University of Kinshasa.
Since the assassination of Mamadou Ndala, he has been inhabited by a deep feeling of injustice for the man whose fight, self-sacrifice and patriotism he intensely appreciated.
He poured it into a play that immerses the reader in a fictional universe but with the idea of paying tribute to a man the country still needs.
Many unexplained gaps remain in the root cause of Ndala’s assassination. Several sources mention the idea of a settling of internal scores within the army while the official voices favoured the thesis of the responsibility of the ADF combatants.
