"Adele King met Camara Laye in 1978, two years before his death, and in 1980 published the principal study about him, The Writings of Camara Laye. In 1991 King set out to disprove rumors that Laye was not the author of one of his novels, Le Regard du roi. Instead she became conv…
The literary works of the Guinean author, Laye Camara, are born out of the author's internal and mental landscape composed of layers of cultural sediment. They celebrate the glorious heritage which for over a thousand years adorned the region of the Upper Niger, (the vast ancien…
A study of La Rue Cases-Negres--an autobiographical narrative written by Joseph Zobel, a black, French-speaking author born in Martinique,--revealed many of the same social problems encountered in Richard Wright's Black Boy. The decision was made to launch an investigation into …