Brittle Paper’s 50 Notable African Books is the product of extensive year-round reportage
The online publication’s annual list celebrates not only the sheer abundance of African literature but its daring, new directions
Poet and literary scholar Veronique Tadjo speaks to Stephen Gray about <i>Voyage: French-language Poetry of the Indian Ocean African Islands</i>
Recently, French studies at Wits University invited Aminata Sow Fall, a leading woman writer from Senegal, to talk about African literature, the issue of language and the state of French-speaking Africa. When most of the former French colonies became independent in the 1960s, it was a time of euphoria and great hope for the future of Africa, writes Veronique Tadjo.