Migration, Politics and Gender Issues in La Sorcière aux tendres bombes

The aim is to comment on a book La Sorcière aux tendres bombes, a play I published in 2013 by ILV, Cergy. This play was meant to be performed by the Cave Hill French students at the 2012 Intercampus Theatre Festival, but the performance never took place. The plot is located in Negrolasie, a fictional country which is very similar to Ivory Coast. Returning home from Paris to Pokedjan forms for Johnny Playboy an ideal occasion to participate in the development of his country by starting a discrete business, which will change his people’s views on gender issues and intimate practices, and culturally open Pokedjan to the world. But since government controls and spies on everyone, the protagonist faces a strong resistance even before starting anything; he is threatened, suspected of willing to destroy the country; he is even put in jail by the service of Coupé-Décaleur. Dinah, Johnny’s ex girlfriend, is involved in a relationship with the powerful Home Affairs Minister as a sorcerer with tender bombs. This nickname actually is applied to a girl or an escort-girl who works with security forces in order to track political opponents. The play shows how an emigrant becomes a foreigner in his own country. This paper explores the francophone space in its unity and complexity through the topics of globalization, exile-return to native land shocks, political threats, gender issues, intercultural conflicts, emigration, etc. Negrolasie allegorically represents Mother Africa and her whole Diaspora with respect to the present historic development and the global movement of populations.