Books by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
“It’s been impossible to ignore this book since Sarr won the Prix Goncourt last fall. That was the first time the Prix Goncourt has been awarded to an author from Sub-Saharan Africa, and his book has been unanimously praised by critics.” Read more...
The Best Recent Novels from Francophone Africa
Mutt-Lon, Novelist
Interviews where books by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr were recommended
The Best Recent Novels from Francophone Africa, recommended by Mutt-Lon
The award-winning Cameroonian novelist Mutt-Lon selects five of the best recent novels from Francophone Africa, including Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s Prix Goncourt-winning La plus secrète mémoire des hommes. These novels, he notes—as with many others from West and Central Africa—are united by a common search for identity in post-colonial Africa.
