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The black white heart by Arthur Japin

"The black heart White Arthur Japin, Gallimard, 2000



" The first ten years of my life, I was not black. I was in many respects, different from the people around me, but I did not have darker skin. I'm sure. One day I noticed a stain. Later, when I became black once and for all, I started to fade. "

These are by these phrases that begins this book that evokes the fate of Dutch colonies in particular Saharan Africa, through the story of two African princes. Kwasi and Kwame are taken in Holland in the XIXth century, following a Dutch secret deals between slavery and Ashanti. They are offered by their father and uncle to King William of Orange first to serve as guarantor to an illegal trade in slaves, organized by the Dutch government.

Educated and trained with and as Dutch boys in a boarding school in Delft, young Africans gradually forget their language and customs. They are baptized and presented as curiosities to the court in The Hague, where they become friends of the royal family. Kwasi any force trying to adapt to become a "real" Dutch, Kwame opposed to his friend and cousin to keep its African identity in the hope of one day returning to his people.

Written in a lively style, Arthur Japin tells movingly how the two young princes have tried to adapt to the Victorian society, white and foreign. One of them returned to Ghana, the other wants to build for him a Western identity. The uprooting end, however, have disastrous consequences for both.

From these historical facts, Arthur Japin, manages to paint a striking portrait of two children struggling against their fate, struggling with poignant questions of identity and belonging. Arthur Japin has over 10 years to write this book, an opera is drawn from this work.

During his research, Arthur Japin discovered that the head of Nana Badoo Bondso II, king Ahanta, executed in the 19th century by Dutch settlers, was always held in the collections of anatomical museum in Leiden. Through the intervention of the author with the Ghanaian President John Kufuor of the time, the head of Nana Badoo Bondso He returned to Ghana in 2010.

And this is how history provides material for the literature that provides material for history ... and that this becomes yesterday.