A black writer hits out
10th September 2012
This original watercolour illustration appears in a typescript copy of Pellobelle Tinkea gentilhomme de fortune, a powerful anti-assimilationist novel, set in West Africa, Europe and America 1915–19, which focuses on, among other things, the status of ‘author’ among African writers of the time, a status which was denied them. The authors are given as Hippolyte and Prosper […]
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