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3. Alain Mabanckou
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou is a French-Congolese writer and a professor of French literature at the
University of California. He became known in 1998 with his first novel, Bleu-Blanc-Rouge, for
which he received the Grand prix littéraire d’Afrique noire — one of the major literary prizes for
French-language literature in Africa.
Mabanckou’s novel Verre cassé (Broken Glass), which recounts the lives of the regulars in a bar
in Brazzaville, made him a well-known name among the general public. But it’s mostly
