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Alain Mabanckou: "We must empower the Francophonie, so that it ceases to be the prerogative of heads of state"

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The writer Alain Mabanckou is on tour in 4 French institutes in East Africa during Francophonie Week from March 12 to 20, 2022. © RFI/Coralie Pierret

By: Coralie Pierret

The writer Alain Mabanckou is on tour in four French institutes in East Africa: in Rwanda, in Kenya, and in the east of the DRC, in Goma and Bukavu.

He leads conferences on the place of French in Africa as a prelude to Francophonie Week scheduled for March 12 to 20.

French is the language of his novels which he has been writing for many years.

Since his first book,

published by Présences africaines in 1998, he has not stopped writing against the backdrop of Congo Brazzaville, the country in which he was born. 

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