Literature

Thirty years in the past, on Might 15, 1991, the well-known Malian author Amadou Hampâté Bâ, creator of Amkoullel, the Fulani Baby, died in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The muse that bears his identify organizes on this event conferences and debates as regards to his work and his reminiscence. She additionally launched into an intensive mission to digitize convention notes, correspondence or varied writings by…

Whereas in the course of the apartheid period in South Africa, we witnessed the triumph of English-language writers, essentially the most well-known of whom are Nadine Gordimer, AndreBrink or John Michael Coetzee, however after the apartheid period, a wide range of abilities emerged, the seen and progressive of that are African audio system. Literature within the African language has an extended custom. François Smith, whose first novel,…

Congo-Brazzaville lives in step with the first edition of the book and theater trolley; an authors' initiative that aims in particular to bring books closer to the public in a country with abundant literature. Leaving Brazzaville, this caravan must stay in five sections in southern Congo. The initiator, playwright Mireille Emma Opa Elion, at the head of a writers' collective, sets the goals for the event. “The reason for the book and theater carriage is quite simple; it is our desire to make books and theater beloved…

In her newest ebook, Sophie Bouillon shares her ardour for Lagos, a West African metropolis the place she works for AFP. Between the strains, the portrait of a metropolis through the Covid disaster, and what it takes to stay there. “In the event you suppose you might be robust, come to Lagos. You will see. "As a spotlight of…

Francophonie is orphaned, with the poet Edouard Maunick missing. The Mauritian bard leaves behind an enormous poetic work, imbued with nostalgia for its native island and lively with militant humanism. His poetry is also rich in lexical inventions and baroque inspiration. "... the sea can not dieno totem is ashILE got usto experience other lonelinessthan those…

The thirty Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is a new star in African American letters. With his first book, Friday Black, a short story that has just been published in French, this author who was born to parents of Ghanaian origin establishes himself as a powerful and innovative voice. The twelve short stories in this collection combine dystopia, satire and magical realism and show a clear and disturbing portrait of American society, a society…

Almost two months after taking the helm of the African Union, Félix Tshisekedi begins the activities of his action plan. This year, the theme chosen by the Pan-African organization is "Art, culture and heritage: levers to build the Africa we want". In this context, a Pan-African literary prize was launched in the Congolese capital, a first of its kind.…

The novelist Diary Sow participated on Thursday through a video conference in the "Exclusive Feminine Forum" organized by the French Institute in Saint-Louis. His "disappearance" in January 2021 had moved the whole country and aroused a very strong mobilization within the diaspora. When she returned, she had mentioned "an irreversible need to cut the bridges for a moment."…

Despite a dying book and publishing sector in the country, "the literary re-entry of Mali" has tried every year for thirteen years to stimulate and question the industry. Literary cafes, debates and conferences were at the heart of the meetings this week. An exchange week that ended on Saturday, March 20 with an evening of prize giving.…

The forerunner of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the negritude movement, the American WEB Du Bois has dedicated his life to the fight against racism and to the defense of black culture. Her monumental work, which consists of sociological and historical essays, but also of fictions and autobiographical narratives close to prose poetry, strikes the astonishing modernity in the analyzes of the balance of power between races in the United…