Rédaction Africa Links 24 with alm
Published on 2024-04-04 12:11:56
La Croisée des Chemins is publishing two new works as part of its Sembura collection, a collection deliberately focused on African voices. The titles are “Choco Trauma: The Bitter Taste of Cocoa Culture” by Samy Manga and “Makila” by Elvis Ntambua Mampuelle. These two novels will certainly win the favor of readers. About the collection: Derived from “gusembura,” which means to ferment in Kinyarwanda, the word “sembura” calls for sowing, fermenting, and germinating ideas and imaginaries, as well as multiplying cuttings and hybridizations between identities, memories, and innovations. Sembura encourages literary harvests, intellectual emulation, and the fraternization of Pan-African imaginaries. Launched in January 2021 within the publishing house La Croisée des Chemins, the Sembura collection is supported by the Corymbo Foundation, based in Switzerland. By focusing on youth, stylistic revolutions, and novelistic experiments, the Sembura collection aims to bring forth the new voices of Pan-African literature from Casablanca, rooted in the continent’s contexts and engaged in the flows of cultural globalization. Open to authors from Africa and its diasporas, it welcomes works of contemporary general literature, literature of ideas, and essays produced by and about the continent, which is the cradle of humanity, and also the youngest and one of the most dynamic continents on the planet.
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