Front cover for the book Passage of Tears (The. Waberi is currently a Donald and Susan Newhouse Center for the Humanities Fellow at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. In the United States of Africa (French Voices (Bison Paperback)). His first volume of stories, The Land without Shadows, won Belgium's Royal Academy of French Science, Literature and Fine Arts Prize, and the Grand prix litteraire d'Afrique noire. Waberi, one of a handful of francophone writers of fiction to have emerged in the twentieth century from the confetti-sized state. Waberi (Author) 18 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover Paperback 23.77 3 Used from 15.46 7 New from 23.77 Language English Publisher Bison Books Publication date Jan. His writings, now translated into more than ten languages, include The Land Without Shadows Transit Harvest of Skulls Rifts, Roads, Railways and, In the United States of Africa. In the United States of Africa Paperback Jan. His articles, short stories, and reviews have been published in many African and international magazines and newspapers, including Le Monde diplomatique, Africultures, Le Monde, Liberation, Le Nouvel Observateur, Jeune Afrique Economie, DU, Grand Street, and Lettre International. Waberi is the author of numerous novels, essays, articles, and travel reports.
Born in Djibouti City in 1965, he traveled to Caen, France in 1985, where he began his studies of English language and literature.
Waberi is novelist, essayist, poet, and short-story writer. Perhaps this is why writers such as the Congolese Wilfried N’Sondé or the Moroccan Fouad Laroui, whose work often addresses broad themes of love, friendship and betrayal, have never been translated into English.įortunately, the University of Nebraska Press has broken with this trend.Abdourahman A. And since their primary understanding of Africa comes from headlines about the continent’s troubles, it makes sense that novels exploring these subjects would attract their attention. One plausible explanation for this is that too many British and American publishers view African literature through the prism of ethnology. Most African fiction to which English-language readers are exposed seems to be exclusively concerned with the question of “what is?” The plight of child soldiers, the Aids pandemic, life under apartheid, the clash between traditions and modernity – these subjects make up the bulk of what English-language publishers translate. I have an essay in The National about the work of the Djiboutian writer Abdourahman Waberi, whose most recent novel is In The United States of Africa.
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