Boubacar Boris Diop

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Boubacar Boris Diop (born 1946 in Dakar) is a Senegalese novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His best known work, Murambi, le livre des ossements (Murambi: The Book of Remains), is the fictional account of a notorious massacre during the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

He is also the founder of Sol, an independent newspaper in Senegal, and the author of many books, political works, plays and screenplays.

His most recent book is Doomi Golo (2006). The first and only novel ever written in Wolof,^{[citation needed]} it deals with the life of a Senegalese Wolof family. The book was published by Papyrus Afrique, Dakar.

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François-Xavier Verschave

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[edit] Political writings

Nicholas Sarkozy’s Unacceptable, 2008. Speech By Boubacar Boris Diop (Trans. from French by Wandia) Njoya).
Ivory Coast: colonial adventure, By Boubacar Boris Diop. Monde Diplomatique, April 2005.
LE SENEGAL ENTRE CHEIKH ANTA DIOP ET SENGHOR. Boubacar Boris Diop, 2005.
Boubacar Boris Diop (Journaliste écrivain) : Les parents pauvres des médias. The PANOS Institute of West Africa, 2002.
Boubacar Boris Diop, Dakar Noir . Transition - Issue 87 (Volume 10, Number 3), 2001, pp. 90-107.
The new wretched of the earth on the Spanish exclaves Ceuta and Melilla at signandsight.com.

[edit] Interviews

Interview with Boubacar Boris Diop, Yolande Bouka & Chantal Thompson. Lingua Romana: a journal of French, Italian and Romanian culture

Volume 2, number 1 / fall 2004.

Sugnet, Charles. Dances with Wolofs: A conversation with Boubacar Boris Diop. Transition - Issue 87 (Volume 10, Number 3), 2001, pp. 138-159
BOUBACAR BORIS DIOP : « Il a été des combats les plus rudes pour la dignité de l’homme noir’ », Elie-Charles MOREAU.