Leeds, UK. HopeRoad. 2025. 122 pages.In Small Boat, Vincent Delecroix uses a first-person narrator as a vehicle to examine the issue of migration. Based on t…
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New York. New Press. 2025. 225 pages.Since 2005’s Broken Glass, Alain Mabanckou has emerged as the Congo’s definitive literary voice (see WLT, Sept.…
New York. New Press. 2020. 256 pages. IN 2015, ALAIN MABANCKOU crafted a modern folktale with Black Moses. The novel followed the titular child’s odyssey through one of the…
New York. The New Press. 2017. 199 pages.A beautiful amalgam of childlike optimism and the harshness of reality, Alain Mabanckou’s Black Moses solidifies the author’s status as a modern maste…
New York. The New Press. 2016. 202 pages.Without so much as a few lines’ hesitation, Alain Mabanckou extinguishes a persistent, haunting myth within The Lights of Pointe-Noire: despite clingi…
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