Camara Laye

A native of French Guinea, Camara Laye was still in his twenties and studying engineering in France when he wrote The Dark Child. Long regarded as Africa's pre-eminent Francophone novelist, he died in Senegal in 1980.

A native of French Guinea, Camara Laye was still in his twenties and studying engineering in France when he wrote The Dark Child. Long regarded as Africa's pre-eminent Francophone novelist, he died in Senegal in 1980. See less