Tierno Monembo

Thierno Saïdou Diallo, usually known as Tierno Monénembo (born 1947 in Porédaka[1]), is a Francophone Guinean novelist and biochemist. Born in Guinea, he later lived in Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, and finally France since 1973. He has written eight books in all and was awarded the 2008 prix Renaudot for The King of Kahel (le Roi de Kahel).https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tierno_Mon%C3%A9nembo&action=edit Quotes Take something else. Throw me in prison or kill me. But why steal my manuscript? ... You don't swim in the same river twice.https://www.modernghana.com/news/1431679/guineas-tierno-monenembo-stolen-words-and-diehar.html?hl=en-US#:~:text=A%20group%20of%20his%20young%20supporters%20searched,kill%20me.%20But%20why%20steal%20my%20manuscript%3F%22 To die for your ideas is a beautiful way for a writer to die.https://www.litnet.co.za/african-library-oldest-orphan-tierno-monenembo/?hl=en-US#:~:text=A%20passage%20on%20the%20second%20page%20of,I%20had%20just%20turned%20ten%20for%20nothing. My name is Faustin... I'm fifteen years old. I'm in a cell in Kigali central prison. I'm waiting to be executed... I tell myself I had just turned ten for nothing." Exile is not just a geographical distance; it is a displacement of the soul, a constant negotiation between where you were born and where you are forced to exist." In Africa, power often feeds on the silence of intellectuals. Writing becomes the only weapon to break that complicity." History is not written only by the victors; it lives in the memory of the oppressed, waiting for the storyteller to give it voicehttps://www.modernghana.com/news/1431679/guineas-tierno-monenembo-stolen-words-and-diehar.html?hl=en-US#:~:text=renowned%20author%20is%20fearless%20and%20defiant.%20%22If,ruling%20junta%20openly.%20By%20PATRICK%20MEINHARDT%20(AFP). References