In 2021, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s ambitious novel, La Plus Secrète Mémoire des Hommes, won the most prestigious French gong the Prix Goncourt — a first for sub-Saharan Africa. The novel, translated into English as The Most Secret Memory of Men, is itself dedicated to, and inspired by, the life of the Malian... read full story
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