Africa Table: In Conversation with Aminata Sow- Fall: Writing, The Publication Industry, and Social Change in Francophone Africa

Join the Center for African Studies for our weekly lunchtime lecture series.
Speaker: Aminata Sow-Fall, Author, Senegal; Winner of the Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique Noire and the Alioune Diop Prize
Aminata Sow Fall is an internationally renowned Senegalese-born novelist. Her novel, La Grève des bàttu, won the 1980 Grand Prix Littéraire d’Afrique 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 Propriété littéraire in Dakar. She also founded the publishing house Éditions Khoudia in 1990. She will tell us about being one of the first female writers in francophone Africa, and discuss social justice in her works of fiction and the challenges of the publishing market in francophone Africa.