(Born 17 April 1929, Dakar, Sénégal)
NOVELIST and influential intellectual, author of the seminal Une si longue lettre (1979)/So Long a Letter (1981)
(Red Garland Quintet, “All mornin’ long” [personnel: Garland, piano; Donald Bryd, trumpet; John Coltrane, tenor saxophone; George Joyner, bass; Art Taylor, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, US, 15 November 1957])*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is the author of African Literature in Defence of History: An essay on Chinua Achebe (2001) and co-author, with Lakeson Okwuonicha, of Why #DonaldTrump is #great for #Africa (2018)Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe
