Hervé Sanson is a specialist in Maghreb literature. It tells of the conditions for the emergence of French-speaking Algerian literature in the 1950s when the country plunged into a brutal war of…
Antjie Krog is known all over the world for his emotional reports aimed at the South African Truth and Reconciliation…
The second part of the Chronicle of Writing Paths that RFI dedicates to the Congolese from the Congo, Valentin-Yves Mudimbe.…
It was by publishing in 1971, 50 years ago, his first fiction, Tribaliques, that the Congolese Henri Lopes made himself…
Since the publication in 2006 of his first novel And the sky forgot to rain, the Mauritanian author Beyrouk has…
Whereas in the course of the apartheid period in South Africa, we witnessed the triumph of English-language writers, essentially the…
The thirty Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is a new star in African American letters. With his first book, Friday Black, a…
The forerunner of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the negritude movement, the American WEB Du Bois has dedicated his…
Tsitsi Dangaermbga is the great lady in Zimbabwean letters. She became famous by publishing in 1988 her first novel “Nervous…
After a career in satirical journalism, the Senegalese Pape Samba Kane returned to his first literary and artistic love. With…
Since his first novel, published two decades ago, the Algerian Boualem Sansal has built from book to book a work…
