"I became a writer because when I was very young, my mother told us stories about animals and I was so naïve that I thought that what she was telling was true. Very soon I discovered that with just words you can invent a world.” Hear how a committed African writer is trying to fight Africa’s declining reading culture.

Our guest on this show is Boubakar Boris Diop from Senegal

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