120:(Pastré country), who admired their civilization and became a Fulani king. He uses the opportunity to revisit colonial history in order to bring this controversial period into the fictional imagination. He is currently working on the life of a Guinean Fula, a hero of the Resistance in France, executed by the Germans, as well as on the links connecting the black diaspora of the Americas with Africa.
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Tierno Monénembo published his first novel in 1979. His novels often deal with the powerlessness of intellectuals in Africa, and the difficulties of the lives of
Africans in exile in France. He is particularly interested in the history and connections of blacks with the forced immigrant diaspora in
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He was strongly critical of the military coup d'état of 23 December 2008, in Guinea having brought to power the junta led by
Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, just after the death of President Lansana Conté, who led the country with an iron fist since 1984. Remaining relatively quiet in 2009, on both a
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political and literary level, until the massacre of more than 150 civilians by the army on
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to pursue his studies. He went to France in 1973, again for his studies, and he obtained a doctorate in biochemistry from the
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Brazil (Pelourihno). He recently devoted a novel to the Fula people and a fictionalized biography of
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202:Les Écailles du ciel
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