Edwige-Renée Dro Quotes
b. 1980 Ivory Coast
Edwige-Renée Dro (born 1980s) is an Ivorian writer, translator and literary activist.
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I even want to learn Spanish so I can access more literature, because can you imagine what else is out there that we are not accessing?
It is a shame that we do not know who is making the news in Guinea, in Burkina Faso, in Mali, or in Senegal
I want to write in French! But I want that Ivorian French we speak here to make its way into the dictionaries
We should be deliberate about the literature we want to come out of this continen
If we want to be competitive, we need to understand that publishing is a business
I read more books by writers from Africa when I lived in Europe than I do here
I got also tired of the rampant misogynistic and sexist attitude in my country
I don't like the term "indigenous languages", I just call them "languages
I wanted mentality to change. I want mentalities to change
We are saying that in our country, Côte d’Ivoire, we read
We often hear that Ivorians don’t read, but if they don’t read, who are those people standing in front of newspaper stands every morning reading the titles? They are called titrologues
We decided that the sounds of guns were going to overwhelm the sounds of literature
At the moment, Ivorian literature is going through a mediocre phase, and the reason why is because the other bits of infrastructure that are necessary for creating good literature are non-existent
The old writers are not just the gatekeepers; they have entered and they have shut the gate firmly behind them so no one else can enter
We are just writing and writing, and I think we are writing enough. Let’s now think of ways of building strong publishing houses on the continent, so our books can get to people