West-Africa
Pope Samba Kane celebrates love “for the drag”
After a career in satirical journalism, the Senegalese Pape Samba Kane returned to his first literary and artistic love. With two collections…
Topic
Literature
East-Africa
Tsitsi Dangarembga, dissident novelist and feminist from Zimbabwe
Together with her new novel “This Mournable Physique”, the Zimbabwean Tsitsi Dangarembga is taking part this yr for the distinguished Booker Prize,…
Somalia
The black work from Boualem Sansal
Since his first novel, published two decades ago, the Algerian Boualem Sansal has built from book to book a work of radical…
Central-Africa
The American Autobiography of Alain Mabanckou – Writing Paths
Author of a corpus of thirty books in which fiction co-exists with poetry and essays, the Congolese Alain Mabanckou is also a…
East-Africa
Mauritian Ananda Devi tells the women’s millennium “Fardo”
The new book from the pen by Mauritian novelist Ananda Devi is not a novel, but an original written exercise published in…
West-Africa
RFI Theater Award in 2020 awarded to Guinea’s Souleymane Bah for “La Cargaison”
“I got to break and get into theater writers.” Author and director Souleymane Bah, 46, will receive the RFI Theater 2020 award…
