Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Since 2004, Le Salon africain (part of the annual Geneva Book Fair) awards the Ahmadou Kourouma Prize to an ‘African oeuvre, essay or fiction that reflects the spirit of independence and creativity which is the heritage of Ahmadou Kourouma’. This year the Prize goes to Rwandan author Scholastique Mukasonga for her latest novel
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Alain Mabanckou’s 2009 novel Black Bazar spoke successfully to and about the African diaspora in France, their daily hustle, fashion, style and language. All through the eyes of the Congolese migrant nicknamed ‘Fessologue’, sapeur and pub philosopher,...
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
I wasn’t pleased with the selection of short stories listed for the Caine Prize this year. That list made African writing look bad. Truth be told, the problem associated with such collections is hardly applicable to the...
Friday, November 18th, 2011
By Alain Mabanckou* A few months before the presidential elections in France appears this ‘beautiful book’, La France noire, Trois siècles de présences (‘Black France, Three centuries of presence’ (eds.) Pascal Blanchard, Sylvie Chalaye, Eric Deroo, Dominique...
Friday, July 15th, 2011
In France, Alain Mabanckou is known as “the African Samuel Beckett.” Mabanckou left Congo-Brazzaville in 1989 to study law in France, “but quit as a corporate lawyer within a decade,” according to The Economist. His first novel,...
African Cup of Nations Preview: Nig...
17 Jan 2013 at 12:00 pm
The Life and Times of Harry Belafon...
20 Jun 2011 at 9:30 am
Gangster Fashion
3 Apr 2011 at 1:02 pm
“Grandma’s going, so I am going too...
6 Oct 2011 at 2:27 pm
Is the Joyce Banda the world sees t...
30 Nov 2012 at 9:00 am
Our African Cup of Nations 2013 pre...
17 Jan 2013 at 10:30 am
Moses Mololekwa and the loss of “ne...
18 Feb 2013 at 9:00 am
Why the rhino is Newsmaker of the Y...
22 Jan 2013 at 6:00 am
How to celebrate International Wome...
8 Mar 2012 at 3:10 pm
