b-sama:Wall Street Journal Unveils the Face Behind Africa’s Most Anticipated NovelImbolo Mbue burst
b-sama:Wall Street Journal Unveils the Face Behind Africa’s Most Anticipated NovelImbolo Mbue burst into the lime light late last year after signing a million dollar deal with Random House for her debut manuscript. The novel titled Behold the Dreamers follows the travails of a Cameroonian immigrant and a Lehman Brothers executive during the 2008 financial crisis.One million dollar advance? It’s a first for an African novelist. The African literary community lit up. We all lost our minds. This is huge, we crooned.After the enormity of the news sank in, the nosy blogger in me went in search of a photograph. Who was this brand new voice taking the African literary community completely by surprise? -- source link