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Thursday, 25 July 2019

217th birthday of Alexandre Dumas

(Born 24 July 1802, Villiers-Cotterêts, France)
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

ONE of the preeminent luminaries of French letters, prolific across genres – novels, drama, travel books, history, journalism – with classics which include The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, Twenty Years Later, The Last Cavalier, Georges
(Miles Davis Quintet, Ascenseur pour l’echafaud {Lift to the scaffold} [personnel: Davis, trumpet; Barney Wilen, tenor saxophone; René Utreger,  piano; Pierre Michelot, bass; Kenny Clarke, drums; recorded: Le Poste Parisien Studio, Paris, France, 4 and 5 December 1957])

******Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is the author of African Literature in Defence of History: An essay on Chinua Achebe (2001) and Readings from Reading: Essays on African History, Genocide, Literature (2011)

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe