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Khadidjatou FALL An author from Senegal writing in French |
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Khadidjatou Fall was born in 1948 into a large,Ouluf speaking, Moslem family. She spent her childhood in Dakar. Her father was bursar at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and her mother looked after the family. She attended the John F. Kennedy High School and later, the Van Vollenhoven High School in Dakar. She subsequently spent four years at Toulouse University followed by studies at Strasbourg University where she gained a PhD.. Khadi Fall also spent several lengthy periods in Germany in the early 1990s researching her "thèse d'état". In 1995, she took part in the International Writing Program organised by the University of Iowa in the U.S.A.. Khadi Fall has travelled extensively and is currently (1998) a Professor at the University of Dakar where she has worked for some years teaching German.
Publications
Mademba. Paris: L'Harmattan. (Collection Encres noires), 1989 (173p.). Novel. ISBN: 2 7384 0455 3.
Mademba is nineteen years old. He has been hospitalised for a throat operation and fears losing the use of his voice. Because of this he decides to record his life story: of his separation from his mother when his father sends him to a Koranic school a long way from his home, the ill-treatment and the misery he experiences, his escape and his wretched life in Dakar...
This work was awarded the Prix du Roman in the Senegal-Culture Competition in 1985.
"Tembi Mkwanazi is fifty five years old. Originally from South Africa, she has lived in Dakar for many years. She is drawn by circumstances back to the world of her childhood, to her native Sotho language and to memories of her years spent in exile. Scent of the Rains is also the story of the difficult idea of the 'couple' in an African context, where customary polygamy in its modern or traditional form, seems often to make the concept of and the word 'couple' appear incongruous." (Back cover)
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Last updated: Tuesday, 26-Nov-96
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