Library weekly: Kama Sywor Kamanda

Kama Sywor Kamanda (Source: Wikimedia Commons, Cornischong at Luxembourgish Wikipedia, CC-BY-1.0)On 11 November 1952, Congolese writer, poet, novelist, playwright, essayist and storyteller Kama Sywor Kamanda was born in in Luebo, Belgian Congo. He was the founding president of the African Association of Writers. As a writer he subsequently produced a considerable body of literary work, including a dozen anthologies of poetry, several hundred stories, as well as several novels. Kama Sywor Kamanda is featured in our Library Weekly.