Francophone Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou’s Black Moses, out this year in an English translation by Helen Stevenson, is the story of a man whose full name in the Lingala language means “Thanks be to God, the black Moses is born on the earth of our ancestors.” Moses also frequently goes by “Little Pepper,” having earned the moniker … More Alain Mabanckou’s Piquant Picaresque: Black Moses