Hobart and William Smith Colleges - africana

Dahouda publishes on French Caribbean

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Chair of the Department Kanaté Dahouda recently published an essay in a new book on the French Caribbean "Poet of the Negritude" movement, Léon-Gontran Damas: poète modern, published by Ibis Rouge Editions (Matoury, Guyane, 2009). Dahouda's essay, "Léon-Gontran Damas et la quête de l'identité nègre," deals with ways in which...

African Literature Assn. at HWS

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The world's leading association of African literature scholars, artists and writers is now housed at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y. Last weekend, members of the group's Executive Council gathered from around the world at HWS for the group's annual retreat. For Scholar-in-Residence and Co-Director of Africana Studies Thelma Pinto and Professor of French and Franco...