literary

How Rwanda’s literary giants promoted their country’s rich culture through their work

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Authors and poets whose work has preserved Rwanda’s history and future Originally published on Global Voices From left to right: Alexis Kagame, screenshot from, ‘Amateka n’ amabanga ya Padiri ALEXIS KAGAME: Menya ukuri‘. Fair use. Scholastique Mukasonga, Immaculée Ilibagiza and Yolande Mukagasana, images from Wikimedia Commons. (CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED and CC BY 4.0 DEED). • Read More »

For African literary criticism: Interview with the founder of francophone ‘African literary chronicles’

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Francophone literature from the global south has been marginalized Originally published on Global Voices Image via Canva Pro. Free to use The award of the Goncourt Prize, a prestigious French literature award, to Senegalese author Mohamed Mbougar Sarr in 2021 marks the first recognition of a sub-Saharan author by this institution in nearly 120 years. • Read More »