![]() ![]() His first novel, The African Child or The Black Child, was compulsory literature in many schools in Africa, including my birthplace Liberia. This language has its origins in Mali, and it is divided in the Mandé f u and the Mandé tan group of languages, meaning that number ten ends with fu in one group and tan in another.Ĭamara Laye was a great writer. In fact, many of the people of Sierra Leone, Gambia, Guinea, Mali, and almost the entire population of Liberia belong to the Mandé speaking language group. Laye focused on his own people, the Mandé, who are spread across Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mali. In his seminal work, The Guardian of the Word, Guinean novelist Camara Laye explored the work of Djeli’s in several countries in West Africa. They even resonate in the works of rappers and spoken word artists. ![]() The djelis took cultures and traditions across the African continent and even the world. ![]()
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