The Department of French
The Council on African StudiesThe Department of African American Studies present a lectureby one of the leading French-language writers Alain Mabanckou
novelist, essayist, bloggerprofessor of French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature, UCLAwinner of the Grand Prix Littéraire de l’Afrique noire and the Prix Renaudot“Indépendances africaines : illusions et désillusions”
in Frenchquestions and discussion in French and English For more on Alain Mabanckou, see www.alainmabanckou.net/and www.gallimard.fr/rentreelitteraire/AlainMabanckou.htm