A chronicle of Black Manoo’s Life, an Ivorian guy, who arrived in Paris in the 1990s, between drugs, music, friendships and romantic encounters.

Black is a sans-papiers immigrant, tossed between his best friend, a dealer, and his girlfriend, with whom he opens a clandestine bar.

A novel that follows in the wake of Debout Payé, an synthesis between the two veins of autobiography and social observation. Black Manoo explores, behind the scenes of a breathtaking neighborhood, the strategies of an African who just landed in Paris and take roots there, through mystical rituals inherited from old and improbable odd jobs.

Gauz invents in this narrative a literary concise style as intense as the most powerful of the musics.