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“I belong to a generation of writers who break down barriers and refuse the compartmentalisation of the imagination.”
Source: Inaugural lecture 'Lettres noires : des ténèbres à la lumière', Collège de France, Paris, 17 March 2016
Context Taking up the Collège de France's annual chair of artistic creation, the first writer to hold it, he criticised how African literature in French is kept apart in France.
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