A giant of black feminist writing and thought, Maryse Condé was recently awarded the New Academy Prize in Literature, a…
On 12 October, Maryse Condé was announced as the winner of the New Academy Prize in Literature, an award created…
Alain Mabanckou’s new novel, Les cigognes sont immortelles, spans three important days in the life of a Congolese boy from…
It’s awards season in the French-speaking literary world! A number of big prizes revealed their longlists in the month of…
Un océan, deux mers, trois continents is the realisation of an idea I had forming in my mind for about…
2008 Nobel Prize-winning Franco-Mauritian author JMG Le Clézio has dipped his pen into the world of transnational literature again, but…
In their Summer issue, Asymptote Journal features new poetry from Congolese author Fiston Mwanza Mujila. Eschewing the more chaotic and…
The JRB Francophone and Contributing Editor Efemia Chela reviews Not One Day, Anne Garréta’s memoir and the second of her books to be…
Ableism and the silent roar: The JRB Francophone and Contributing Editor Efemia Chela travels to Burundi with Roland Rugero’s novel Baho! in The…
« Qu’est-ce que ça te fait à toi, l’homme noir d’Amérique, d’être au Kenya ? » Voilà une question qui taraude l’inspecteur Ishmael….
