Senegalese choreographer Germaine Acogny in 2022.
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Germaine Acogny has risen as a female artist who has defied stereotypes to become one of the world’s most revered dance makers.
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr on a TV show after winning the Prix Goncourt.
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He is the first writer from sub-Saharan Africa to lift the Prix Goncourt, one of the book world’s most important prizes. And his win matters.
Portrait of French-Senegalese author David Diop whose novel has won the 2021 International Booker prize.
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The French-Senegalese author’s novel At Night All Blood is Black is a harrowing and politically profound story of a Senegalese soldier fighting for the French in the first World War.