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Tales of Kamanda (Paperback)
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Tales of Kamanda (Paperback)
Series: Tales of Kamanda
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Tales of Kamanda Vol. 1 by Kama Sywor Kamanda; 41 enchanting tales
by Africa's greatest story teller.Kama Sywor Kamanda has produced a
dozen anthologies of poetry, several hundred stories, four novels
and three plays. The imagery in his stories comes from African
traditions but mixes the fantastic and the real, conjuring up
memorable pictures of sunlight, dark forests, beautiful princess
and fearful monsters. Born in the Congo, he published his first
collection of stories in 1967 when he was 15. He helped create the
Union of Congolese Writers but fled Mobutu's Congo in 1977. He was
the founding president of the African Association of Writers of
which Leopold Sedar Senghor was the honorary president.His works
have been translated into many languages and he has earned many
prizes, including the Black Africa Grand Prize for Literature, the
Paul Verlaine Prize and the Theophile Gautier prize from the
Academie francaise. In 2005, the International Council for
Francophone Studies conferred upon him the prestigious
Maurice-Cagnon Certificate of Honour, for his unique contribution
to world literature in French.B OOKS OF AFRICA is also publishing
children's editions of two of his stories, "Amana, the child who
was a god" and "Prince Muntu". Published in collaboration with
Editions DAGAN, Paris
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