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African Origins Of Civilizations: Myth or Reality?

Diop’s book, Anteriorite des civilizations negres, have profoundly influenced thinking about Africa around the world. It was largely because of it that, at the World Festival of the Arts held in Dakar in 1966, Dr. Diop shared with the late W. E. B. DuBois an award as the writer who had exerted the greatest influence on Negro thought in the 20th century.
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L’aventure ambiguë

L’Aventure ambiguë is a novel by Senegalese author Cheikh Hamidou Kane, first published in 1961, about the interactions of western and African cultures. Its hero is a boy from the Diallobé region of Senegal who goes to study in France. There, he loses touch with his Islamic faith and his Senegalese roots
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Oeuvre Poétique

Oeuvre Poetique (1990) was originally published as Poèmes (1964) bringing together Chants d’Ombre (1945),
Hosties Noires (1948), Ethiopiques (1956) and Nocturnes (1961). In his poems Senghor explores the mythic origins
of the African persona.
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The African Origins of Civilization:Myth or Reality,

This book presents Diop’s main thesis that historical, archaeological and anthropological
evidence supports the theory that the civilization of ancient Egypt, the first that history records, was actually Negroid
in origin.

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Une si longue lettre

So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ’s first novel, is literally written as a long letter. As the novel begins, Ramatoulaye Fall is beginning a letter to her lifelong friend Aissatou Bâ. The occasion for writing is Ramatoulaye’s recent widowhood. As she gives her friend the details of her husband’s death, she recounts the major events in their lives.

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