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Alain Mabanckou

Contributor

Alain Mabanckou

Regarded as Francophone Africa’s leading voice, novelist, poet, and essayist Alain Mabanckou was born in Congo and currently lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA. He is the author of African PsychoBroken GlassBlack BazaarTomorrow I Will Be TwentyThe Lights of Pointe-Noire, and Black Moses. In 2015 he was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens.

Articles by Alain Mabanckou

The Madman of Bonanjo
By Alain Mabanckou
You can hang a man from a tree, but you cannot hang History with him.
Translated from French by Helen Stevenson
Multilingual
Blue, White, Red
By Alain Mabanckou
Don't say a word to anyone. Come alone. Make sure that you're not being followed.
Translated from French by Alison Dundy
Broken Glass
By Alain Mabanckou
...over the slightest little argument or some minor act of injustice, they would say I Accuse,...
Translated from French by Nick Caistor
From “African Psycho”
By Alain Mabanckou
I have decided to kill Germaine on December 29.
Translated from French by Christine Schwartz Hartley