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For the author of “The Dictator’s Last Night”, Muammar Gaddafi was a tragic figure. He wrote this gripping first-person novel in just three weeks.

“Tram 83”, the debut novel of this young Congolese, takes us into a world of excess and decay.

Her prodigious literary output explores the intricacies of identity at the heart of the rainbow nation.

With an onrush of jostling words, the writer and poet from Pointe-Noire has written one of the year’s most noteworthy books, “Petit Piment”.

Our collaborator releases “La Révolution n’a pas eu lieu”. For her, writing means living a free life.

Since the publication of “2084. La Fin du monde” we can talk of nothing else but this former high-ranking civil servant. Inspired by Orwell’s “1984”, it tells the tale of a dictatorship where fundamentalism has infiltrated all levels of power.

The Tunisian-born novelist publishes a sweeping saga about the protectorate from an unusual perspective.

Okwui Enwezor is brilliant, influential and a major figure in his profession. He was born in Nigeria and is the first African curator of the Venice Biennial, which runs to the 22nd November. Here’s a look at his vertiginous trajectory.

Sculptor, painter, writer and activist, this Moroccan multi-talented artist tirelessly wrestles with his inner demons and torments.