THE GEULEUI’S DYNASTY

About the Book

My name is Geuleui Dji Jr. I’m a mixed child. My mother is mixed, and my father is black from Ivory Coast, West Africa. I grew up in America raised by my Caucasian maternal grandmother, Carol. As a child growing up in America, the only connection I had with my father was the last name (Geuleui) we shared and a statuette my grandmother Carol gave me. A few months after my parents met, they got married and were both murdered in Ivory Coast, West Africa, while they attended a political event. My grandmother Carol explained to me that the statuette represented a god worshipped by my late father and his people. The statuette became my childhood playmate, and at the same time, it gave me a sense of closeness to a father I’ve never known physically or emotionally. As far as I can remember, my curiosity about the statuette started when my grandmother first gave me the statuette when I was around three years old. Unfortunately, my efforts to find out more about the statuette and my late father were met by resistance from my grandmother Carol. The cloud surrounding my father and the statuette did not quench my curiosity; on the contrary, it amplified it. My quest to find out more about the statuette and my father led me to Ivory Coast, West Africa. There, I unfolded story of a “god” called Gobei the mask and, in the process, the complex relationship this “god” had with my father’s family (the Geuleuis) and his tribe (the Wobe people). My compelling findings have led me to write The Geuleui’s Dynasty. N’Dolo

About the Author

Maimouna Cisse is the daughter of Ibrahima Cisse, one of the last kings of the savanna in Africa. Her late father, Ibrahima Cisse, who was a prolific local writer and a wealthy businessman, became King Nanan Agba Ehoussou II of the Ahali Sakiare Huacle tribe on August 14, 1994. Like her father the king, she is also a prolific writer; she writes under a pseudonym, N’Dolo. She was born and raised in Ivory Coast, West Africa, where she lived for twenty-nine years before she emigrated to the States. She started to write when she turned twenty-nine years old, after a painful divorce and difficult life circumstances. Writing has helped her channel the darkness and sorrow she felt inside into a positive energy. She is politically engaged and takes a stand on a variety of social issues. Her writings illustrate her engagement in politics and her stands on a variety of social issues. Her upcoming future books include but are not limited to a collection of short stories in both French and English and a collection of poems in both French and English also.