Echoes of Childhood Lost: ‘Allah Is Not Obliged’ Brings Potent Animated Recollection of Liberian Wars

Between 1989 and 2003, more than 50,000 children were enlisted in the Liberian and Sierra Leonean civil wars. Lives were torn apart, a tragedy Ivorian author Ahmadou Kourouma used as material for his award-winning novel “Allah Is Not Obliged,” short for the novel’s leitmotif: “Allah is not obliged to be just in all of his […]