![]() Senghor, Assia Djebar, Tierno Monenembo, Tchikaya U Tam'si, Rachid Mimouni, Cyprian Ekwensi, Wole Soyinka, Kateb Yacine and Ahmadou Kourouma, to name a few. ![]() (3) Although Waberi is only one of a hand full of Francophone writers of fiction4 to have emerged from the tiny ex-French colony (it did not obtain independence until 1977) in the Horn of Africa, through allusion to a vast oral and written literary corpus, his work engages in intertextual dialogue with writing in French and English from Africa and the Caribbean by the likes of such writers as Aime Cesaire, L.S. ![]() In 1997 he published his first novel, Balbala, named after Djibouti's "great shantytown of stones and corrugated metal" (Balbala 14). In 1994, he published his first short story collection, Le Pays sans ombre, followed in 1996 by a second short story collection, Cahier nomade. Abdourahamn Waberi, Le Nouvel ObservateurĪbdourahman Waberi was born in 1965 in Djibouti, (2) and now lives in France. "J'habite toujours, comme d'autres a Lauralite-sur-Lecry." (1) ![]()
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