Ibrahima Sall

Sall, Ibrahima (b. 1949). The early poetry of this young Senegalese writer is characterized by his sense of rootlessness in the alienating world created by the previous generation. La Génération spontanée (1975) is a cry against corruption and compromise by one who seeks to reject all ideologies. Sall's collection of short stories, Crépuscules invraisemblables (1977), in which his anger at his society is tempered by humour, are among the best produced in the genre in francophone Africa. His novel Les Routiers de chimères (1982), short-listed for the Noma Award, poetic rather than realistic, is bitter with the dashed hopes of Africa's youth. His play La République (1985) condemns the thirst for power of both conservative and self-proclaimed ‘popular’ leaders.

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