"Languages are not owned by nations but by the people who use them and make them live."

"Le Pays Sans Ombre ("The Land Without Shadow"), Serpent à plumes, Paris, 1994,"

"Balbala, Serpent à plumes, Paris 1998,"

"Cahier nomade ("Nomad's Book"), Serpent à plumes, Paris, 1999"

"L'oeil nomade ("Nomad's Eye"), CCFAR, Djibouti 1997,"

"Les Nomades, mes frères vont boire à, la Grande Ourse ("The Nomads: My brothers go drinking in the Grande Ourse") Hac…"

"Rift, routes, rails ("Rifts, Roads and Rails"), Gallimard, Paris 2001,"

"Transit, Gallimard, Paris 2003,"

"Aux Etats Unis d'Afrique, Lattès, Paris 2006"

"Passage des larmes, Lattès, Paris, 2009"