» On nous dit, et c’est vérité, que c’est partout déréglé, déboussolé, décati, tout en folie, le sang, le vent. Nous le voyons et le vivons. Mais c’est le monde entier…

« We are told, and it is true, that everywhere things are disordered, disoriented, decrepit, have gone completely mad, blood, the wind. We see and experience this. But this is the…

Martinique poet, novelist and philosopher Edouard Glissant offers an enlightening interpretation of the issues involved in cultural globalisation. Through his reflection on migration, exile and wandering – as necessary prerequisites…

The recent re-publication of Le Devoir de violence (Bound to Violence) in France, an essential novel-manifesto that until now had remained scandalously inaccessible and disclaimed, provides an opportunity to reflect…

Why do people consider Africa to be behind in terms of globalisation? How does its own history relate to this process? How can it make a specifically African voice be…

Widening his own definition of Africanity to encompass reflection on humanity without the constraints of a universality ineffective in questioning the world would seem to be the programme set by…

Can African literature consider itself « world literature » without translations?

I believe in what I call creative translation. The translator has to get into the work, and be able to not only just translate the words but to translate also…

In the biography of Jean-Pierre Richard – literary translator since 1982 and head of the DESS degree in professional literary translation at Paris VII University – William Shakespeare, Lord Byron…

The story of South African literature’s translation into French is an interesting one. French translator, Jean-Pierre Richard introduces us to the choices and hurdles (strictly linked to the political climate)…