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Camara Laye was born in at Kouroussa, Guinea into a caste of copper-and-goldsmiths, one of the ancient craft aristocracies of West Africa.

Guinean writer, widely known for his first novel, The African Child. The eldest of seven children of a goldsmith, Laye was born on 1 January in Kouroussa, northern Guinea, where he had his elementary and Koranic education. He later studied engineering at the College Georges Poiret subsequently College Technique in Conakry and won a scholarship to study motor mechanics in Paris.

After graduating he worked for sometime in a car factory in France before embarking on a literary career. Is it possible that Laye has not once witnessed a single minor extortion of the colonial authorities? A second novel, Le Regard du Roi, appeared in and was translated as the Radiance of the King, two years later. Though a more complex work than its predecessor, the work suffered the same fate for the repeated lack of commitment to the ideological directives of the militant nationalism of Negritude.

He later fell out with the government and left Guinea in for exile in Senegal where he wrote his third book, Dramouss, in translated as A Dream of Africa in Laye Camara died in Dakar in February Next post: Ethnographie coloniale 22 octobre