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Paule Constant, on the waves of an African memory

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The novelist Paule Constant publishes "River blindness", published by Gallimard.

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By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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Paule Constant offers us with “The blindness of the rivers”, a journey to the heart of Africa.

It recounts the plunge of a Nobel Prize in Medicine into his African childhood.

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It is a trip that lasts 2 days and 2 nights.

A return to the sources and to the country of his childhood for a great French scientist, Nobel Prize in Medicine "better known than Brigitte Bardot and Che Guevara combined", a dive into himself and reluctantly in his past and that of his father, a former military doctor of the colonial wars.

At his side, a Gbaya driver, an experienced photographer, and a young journalist who is discovering Africa for the first time and who will see many certainties and received ideas waver.

The new novel by

from the Académie Goncourt is instructive, moving and sometimes very funny.

"River blindness", by Paule Constant, is published by Gallimard.

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went to visit the contemporary art gallery and artistic residence: Studio Quatorze Zero Eight located in Dakar.

It was launched in December 2020 by the famous designer Bibi Seck and by Oumar Sow, a passionate collector.

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