What Is Africa to Me?

Fragments of a True-to-Life Autobiography
In this biography, literary giant Maryse Cond recounts her early adult years in Guinea, Ghana, and Sngal, set against the backdrop of their struggles for independence.Maryse Cond is one of the best-known and most beloved French Caribbean literary voices. The author of more than twenty novels, she was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 and has long been recognized as a giant of Black feminist literature. While Cond has previously published an autobiography of her childhood, What Is Africa to Me? tells for the first time the story of her early adult years in Africayears formative not only for her, but also for African colonies appealing for their own independence.

What Is Africa to Me? traces the late 1950s to 1968, chronicling Conds life in Skou Tours Guinea to her time in Kwame NKrumahs Ghana, where she rubbed shoulders with Malcolm X, Che Guevara