Editor: Amatoritsero Ede
Volume 1, Issue 2
November 2007
Abdourahman Waberi: On the Trails of a Nomad
Mohamed Kamara
The force, and modernism, of Abdourahman Waberi does not lie in his theme (politics, history, famine, war, exile, migrancy, etc.), but in his literary technique on the one hand, and in his ability to make style serve content ...
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Bessora: Laughing through the Back of the  Face
Wandia Njoya
The most interesting aspect of our conversation arguably centred on the absurdity of French immigration laws ... Bessora explained to me, at the time a disbelieving listener, that the reality is indeed as absurd as the book portrays it. I have since learned that nothing is too absurd when it comes to French government policies ...
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Alain Mabanckou: Astride the Black World
Ramonu Sanusi
He was going to be a lawyer. Destiny decreed literature, and Alain Mabanckou became a writer. Not just any writer; a writer’s writer. With his six novels, a volume of poetry, a collection of essays, a goatskin bag full of international literary prizes ... Mabanckou has indeed become one of Africa’s most famous and successful writers of the new generation ...
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