The Slaughterhouse of Dreams

Kasala for My Kaku

By: Fiston Mwanza Mujila, J. Bret Maney (Translator)

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Paperback | 18 November 2025

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100 Pages

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Bilingual edition

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22.8 x 15.2

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A new poetic form from Fiston Mwanza Mujila, lauded author of novels Tram 83 and The Villain's Dance and poetry collection The River in the Belly.

The Slaughterhouse of Dreams is rooted in a traditional Congolese form of praise poem that ties together proverbs, myths, fables, and riddles into a recitation, accompanied by music. In Mwanza Mujila's skilled hands, this oral tradition becomes a new multimedia form, kasala, set to the page while retaining the remarkable drama, emotion, and celebration of its performed root. In The Slaughterhouse of Dreams, multiple lyrical traditions create a hybrid world of different global spaces and layers of time. Within this world, everything is possible, real and surreal at the same time. With the rhythmic, frenetic energy found in his poetry, prose, and performances, Fiston Mwanza Mujila reanimates and simultaneously deconstructs ideas of the (post)colonial environment.

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