Présence Africaine: A Selection


Literature (selection)
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Ken Bugul (Senegal) – Le Baobab fou (novel, 1991)
Valérie Cadignan (France) – L’enfant du morne (novel, 2021)
Olivier Ahmad Castagnède (France) – Secrète Lalibela (novel, 2021)
Bernard Dadié (Ivory Coast) – Patron de New-York (novel, 1963)
Aimé Césaire (France) – Cahier d’un retour au pays natal (poetry, 1956)
Léon-Gontran Damas (France) – Pigments (poetry, 1962)
Elgas (Senegal) – Un dieu et des moeurs (short-stories, 2015)
David Mandessi Diop (Senegal) – Coups de pilon (poetry, 1956)
David Mandessi Diop (Senegal) – Coups de pilon (poetry, 1956)
Alioum Fantouré (Guinea) – Le cercle des tropiques (novel, 1972)…
Khalid Lyamlahy (Morocco) – Evocation d’un mémorial à Venise (novel, 2023)
Jean-Baptiste Lanne (France) – Rives d’où je vous veille (novel, 2023)
Mongo Beti (Cameroon) – Le pauvre Christ de Bomba (novel, 1956)
Djibril Tamsir Niane (Guinea) – Soundjata ou l’épopée Mandingue (epic, 1960)
Sembene Ousmane (Senegal) – Le Docker noir (novel, 1956)
Paul Lomami Tshibamba (Congo Kinshasa) – Ngando (novella, 1948, 1982)
Williams Sassine (Guinea) – Wirriyamu (novel, 1976)

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Amzat Boukari-Yabara (Benin) – Walter Rodney: un historien engagé – 1942-1980 (biography & history, 2018)
Aimé Césaire (France) – Discours sur le colonialisme (discourse on colonism, 1955)
Rama Salla Dieng (Senegal) – Féminismes Africains (conversations on feminism, 2021)
Cheikh Anta Diop (Senegal) – Civilisation ou Barbarie (anthropology, 1988)
Fabien Eboussi Boulaga (Cameroon) – La crise du Muntu (philosophy, 1977)
Géraldine Faladé (Benin) – Turbulentes ! (portraits & feminism, 2020)
Séverine Kodjo Grandvaux (France – Ivory Coast) – Philosophies africaines (philosophy, 2013)
Adame Ba Konaré (Mali) – L’os de la parole (politics, 2001)
Bernard Mouralis (France) – L’Europe, l’Afrique et la folie (philosophy & literature, 1993)

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