2300-4681 Ada : Un graffiti mural du sang dans Histoire d’Awu de Justine Mintsa A Wall Graffiti of the Blood in Justine Mintsa’s Histoire d’Awu Mbala-Nkanga Honorine B. author Chercheur indépendant Correspondence to: Honorine B. Mbala-Nkanga 30 06 2018 Numéro 14 La terre, le territoire, la carte 2018 37 53 Copyright © 2018 2018 <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Ada is a 12 year‐old girl who has been impregnated by her teacher in a Middle School where corruption and debauchery are normalized. Mintsa’s esthetics condenses a social criticism of phallocentric discourse through Ada’s grandfather, Afane Obame, a high priest of the Ancestor’s rite called Melan, whose primary focus is to further establish his power. He normalizes Ada’s pregnancy, as tradition dictates, and serves as a receptacle through which Mintsa’s narrative displays a shocking picture of discarded and decomposing placentae along outside walls of the Maternity Ward like graffiti. An allegorical reading of Plato’s Chora, as it relates to Ada’s parturition, opens up a narrative that actualizes the fluidity of a symbiosis between traditional and modern cultural practices. The overlapping imagery of the repulsive wall of decomposing placentae and the symbiotic cultural practices end in a mirror within a mirror graphism with colorful disjunctive syntheses.</span></p>