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Why one of Congo's Best Known Writers Cannot go Back Home
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Alain Mabanckou has won numerous prizes for his humorous depictions of everyday life in the city of his birth, Pointe Noire.
Plus Kenya has announced that it is conducting airstrikes in the Boni Forest along the Lamu-Somalia border to flush out Al Shabaab Militants and how Cameroonian children fared in the ultimate test of self-control.
(Photo: Poet and novelist, Alain Mabanckou, Credit: BBC)
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