Dec 20, 2019
Published Under the pseudonym Eza Boto, Cruel City is Mongo Beti first ever published novel.Born in 1932, Mongo Beti lived and worked in France where he found exile. Many of his books were banned by the French government due to his relationship with leaders of political oppositions in Cameroon .He died in 2001...
Dec 12, 2019
So Long A letter, Mariama Ba first published novel ( the first one by a woman in Africa and in French) is an autobiographical read as a " cry from the heart of the Senegalese women... But it is also a cry which can symbolize a cry of women everywhere "
Nov 23, 2019
Yambo Ouologuem is perhaps the most controversial African writer that ever existed. His critically acclaimed novel Bound To Violence published in 1968 won the Prix Renaudot in 1969, the first African writer to do so,then banned from shelves because of accusations of plagiarism.
Nov 16, 2019
In conversation with Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie Ngozie. We talking race, gender and what it means to be a feminist today
Nov 2, 2019
We met with author Imbolo Mbue in Cincinnati Ohio at the Books by the banks festival and discussed the American dream and her debut novel Behold the Dreamers.