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In Conversation with Aminata Sow Fall: Writing, The Publishing Industry, and Social Change in Francophone Africa
Date
Wed May 6th 2015, 12:00 - 1:00pm
Location
Encina Hall West, 417 Galvez Mall, Room 202
Speakers): Aminata Sow Fall
Aminata Sow Fall is an internationally renowned Senegalese-born novelist. Her novel, La Gr猫ve des b脿ttu, won the 1980 Grand Prix Litt茅raire d鈥橝frique noire. She was a member of the Commission for Educational Reform responsible for the introduction of African literature onto French syllabi in Senegal, before becoming director of La Propri茅t茅 litt茅raire in Dakar. She also founded the publishing house 脡ditions Khoudia in 1990.