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Edwige-Renée Dro on Books

b. 1980 Ivory Coast

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As for African literature, I want people to cite names of women’s writers and for those names to roll off the tongue

The success of African literature will be based on a pan-African approach to literature

Another big problem is that when books are launched, it’s in a gentrified area, so nobody else knows what is happening

I want to get books in translation read, so that everybody has access to literature, whether you finished school in grade two or you have a doctorate.

There is so much literature out there, so much of it beautiful, varied and producing different kinds of conversations

Not every book produced by an African writer is going to be translated into English or Portuguese or Swahili

I identify first and foremost as a writer and I love writing, and reading

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?

We should be deliberate about the literature we want to come out of this continen

I read more books by writers from Africa when I lived in Europe than I do here

We decided that the sounds of guns were going to overwhelm the sounds of literature

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edwige-Renée Dro (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.