Senegal: Birago Diop, veterinarian by accident (1 & 2)

With "Contes et lavanes", Birago Diop will receive in 1964 the Literary Grand Prize of French-speaking black Africa.

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By: Alain Foka

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Those who died never left.

They are in the lightening shadow and in the thickening shadow.

The dead are not underground.

They are in the quivering tree, they are in the moaning wood, they are in the flowing water, they are in the sleeping water, they are in the cellar, they are in the crowd.

The dead are not dead.

These lines, taken from "Les souffles", one of the most famous poems of the African continent, are those of the Senegalese writer Birago Diop.

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