Mariama Bâ demonstrated her feminism through her first and famous novel "Une si longue lettre" where she already criticized the inequalities between men and women encouraged by the African tradition. (Read more...)
Necropolitics translates as the politics of death. Mbembe describes it as the capacity to assign differential value to human life. (Read more...)
Trevor Noah's early life was marked by racial prejudice, rejection, violence and, identity crises. (Read more...)
Thursday 7th of October 2021, the Swedish Academy announced the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature to be Tanzanian-born Abdulrazak Gurnah making him the first Black to win the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993. (Read more...)
Frantz Omar Fanon, also known as Ibrahim Frantz Fanon, was a psychiatrist and political philosopher who may have had a brief but impactful existence. (Read more...)
Unknown to the general public until now, Mbougar Sarr has just written his name in gold letters in the pantheon of world literature by winning the Goncourt Prize 2021. (Read more...)
Amanda's poetry and writings focus on feminism, marginalization, race, oppression, and the Africa diaspora. (Read more...)
"On the Equality of Human Races", Anténor Firmin's book, is clearly opposed to that of someone called Joseph Arthur de Gobineau entitled "On the Inequality of Human Races" (Read more...)
Aminata took up her pen to write about the disintegration of Senegalese society caused by the installation of the bourgeoisie, which exchanged the hopes carried by decolonization for power and social ascent. (Read more...)
The winner of the Goncourt des lycéens in 2020 with her novel "Les impatientes" experienced the same suffering as her heroines. (Read more...)