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• francophone literature?

  Hi
  
  I am new to this site and would love to know if anyone is also intersted in francophone lit. from Wet Africa or West Indies.
  I am thinking of colonial times "Cesaire, Senghor, Fanon, Sembene..." and the more modern writers of the diaspora who may or not write about exile, immigration,... thinking of Conde, Diome, Mabankou.....
  
  I am aonly asking because I created a francophone lit group and would love to see whether people might be interested.... Most of these writers are available in English of course!
  
  Tapa

  tapa started this discussion 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  peter b (edited)

  Hi Tapa,
  
  I'm in the middle of reading Birago Diop's "Les Contes d'Amadou Coumba" at the moment--in French. I absolutely love them. I learned French originally in Nairobi--from a teacher who was from Zaire--but really mostly from a French girlfriend. Then later I lived for two years in Senegal. I've read a lot of Francophone African literature, both in French and in English translation. One of my favorite recent novels is Emmanuel Dongala's Johnny Chien Mechant.

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  FKnabe 

  Hi Tapa, Great idea to discuss francophone African literature as well. I am not so up-to-date as I would like but would love to find out more. During my last trip to Mali, I bought a couple of interesting book. I read the famous, probably classic Amadou Hampate Ba "Amkoullel, L'enfant Peul: Memoires" - fascinating.
  
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