his work is the first edition of La Méthodologie de la nouvelle écriture africaine “bété” by Frédéric Bruly Bouabré. It won’t interest anyone already fluent in bété. It will hold even less interest for those who don’t intend to learn this language. If there is anyone, however, who finds that the facsimile of a Toyota agenda containing the so-called “methodology” makes for a great book, he/she will hereby assuredly be thrilled. This book is as beautiful and as strange in its way as the stones on which Frédéric received the revelation of his universal aphabet. Even more so when you think that, as soon as you’ve finished reading, he has convinced you that Toyota actually means something in “bété”.
Mark Alizart (Paris)

onestar press book:
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
La méthodologie de la nouvelle écriture africaine
Published 2003

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