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Being raised by my African parents is a thing of Joy, but being a Nigerian is another thing, I grew up hearing about how leaders made the poor masses suffer I never knew I would one day become a witness
Camara Laye
Camara Laye was born in 1928 in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea. He was still in his twenties and studying engineering in France when he wrote his award-winning memoir, The Dark Child. His next book, The Radiance of the King, was described as "one of the greatest of the African novels of the colonial period" (Kwame Anthony Appiah). He died in Senegal in 1980.
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