Ahmadou Kourouma
1927 – 2003 · Ivory Coast · Literature
Wrote postcolonial disillusion in a French bent to Malinké speech.
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- Ousmane Sembène
1923 – 2007 · Literature
Writing French in Mandinka syntax continues Sembène's project of an African-language literature in colonial dress.
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- Mia Couto
1955 · Literature, Biology
Breaking the colonial language from inside is the technique they share across Francophone and Lusophone Africa.
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